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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... experience of desire as scrupulously as they have avoided its analysis . I leave it to others to offer theories as to why this is so . But the subject requires that I make a general remark concerning the trouble that philosophy ...
... experience . Its universal adoption by ' sexologists ' has led , however , to a remarkable ' science ' , which ... experiences when he desires another . Desire is identical neither with the ' instinct ' which is expressed in it nor with ...
... experiences of those who have them ? Or again , should we be attempting to locate and to solve the specific puzzles , in ethics and the philosophy of mind , to which reflection on our sexual experience gives rise ? Finally , should we ...
... experience from the world of scientific observation . In the first we exist as agents , taking command of our destiny and relating to each other through conceptions that have no place in the scientific view of the universe . In the ...
... experience which may very well be hampered by too great an attention to the underlying order of things . Concepts of this kind often tend to give way before the pressure of scientific innovation . We feel this pressure in many ways ...
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 |