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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... eyes , mouth , nose and brow transfix us , when they have so little relation to the sexual prowess and bodily perfection of their bearer ? The answer is simple : the face is the primary expression of consciousness , and to see in the ...
... eyes , to be responsible for what he feels . The intentional structure just described , while clearly distinct from the structure of ( linguistic ) meaning , has much in common with it . But we should be misrepresenting the ...
... 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 vagina is to be enclosed by her ) . Suppose there were two such organs . Or ...
... eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I ...
... eyes of an onlooker , someone not party to our arousal , our bodies invite obscene perception . ( Hence there can be obscene represent- ation of wholly innocent sexual acts . ) The observer is not engaged in the delicate negotiations ...
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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 |