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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... we seek , not merely for the causes of events , but also for their meaning - even when they have no meaning . For example , we group the stars into constellations according to fictions of our own , and in 5 THE PROBLEM.
... example of the ' thin ' descriptions generated by everyday human life . There is also classification relative to ... examples : classifications relative to emotions ( the fearful , the lovable , the disgust- ing ) , and classifications ...
... example , in some delusory metaphysic of human freedom or to run impetuously to the protective sanctuary of religious faith , in order to provide dogmatic support for conceptions which are , in truth , our own invention , and which we ...
... example , the concepts of innocence and guilt , normality and perversion , sacred and profane ) . However , the functionality of those concepts does not imply the functionality of the beliefs which employ them . The objectivity of those ...
... example , sexual jealousy . It is impossible to deny the catastrophic power of this emotion , which leads us into the most desperate behaviour , and yet which starts up from the smallest circumstance . How do we explain this catastrophe ...
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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 |