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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... Ideas from which it descended and in which it has its eternal home . The subject of the erotic thus acquired , for ... idea - itself founded in the most dubious of metaphysical distinctions that sexual desire is primarily ' physical ...
... ideas of ' traditional ' morality will no longer seem as strange after reading this book as they have seemed to many ... idea which has been of supreme importance in phenomenology , and which is only belatedly gaining recognition among ...
... idea is older than phenomenology — perhaps as old as Aristotle , certainly as old as Kant . It holds that we must distinguish the world of human experience from the world of scientific observation . In the first we exist as agents ...
... idea seems paradoxical , I hope that it will seem less paradoxical later — or at least , no more paradoxical than human . experience itself . I shall contrast two modes of understanding : scientific understanding , which aims to explain ...
... idea captured in Wittgenstein's slogan , that ' what is given is forms of life ' , and in Husserl's own recognition ( which failed to persuade him to reject the disastrous ' transcendental psychology ' with which he encumbered it ) that ...
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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 |