Sexual Desire: A Philosophical InvestigationA&C Black, 05.03.2006 - 448 Seiten A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and considerably more sound in its conclusion - TLS "He is an eloquent and practised writer" - The Independent (UK) When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence, passion, love and arousal, desire, perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, he surveys the entire field of sexuality; equally dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness, he argues for a radical break with recent theories. Upholding traditional morality - though in terms that may shock many of its practitioners - his argument gravitates to that which is candid, serene and consoling in the experience of sexual love. |
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... essentially pleasures at or about an object ; others ( like the pleasure of a hot bath ) are merely pleasures of sensation . It is not clear whether pleasures of the first kind can be attributed to the lower animals : perhaps they can ...
... essentially interpersonal . It involves an intention to communicate , and also an intention that this first intention be efficacious in revealing the content of what is said . It involves , in short , an elaborate design upon the ...
... essentially non - personal , and if there were no further difference that followed from this , then it would be arbitrary to distinguish them . But the differences between the attitudes , stratagems and satisfactions that arise from ...
... essentially dramatic , and not merely physiological . Both in one's own eyes and in the eyes of the other the sexual organ becomes the self . To be penetrated by a man's penis is to be penetrated by him ( to be enclosed by a woman's ...
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Inhalt
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4 Desire | 59 |
5 The individual object | 94 |
6 Sexual phenomena | 138 |
7 The science of sex | 180 |
8 Love | 213 |
11 Sexual morality | 322 |
12 The politics of sex | 348 |
Epilogue | 362 |
Appendix 1 The first person | 364 |
Appendix 2 Intentionality | 377 |
Notes | 392 |
Index of Names | 419 |
Index of Subjects | 424 |