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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... kind often tend to give way before the pressure of scientific innovation . We feel this pressure in many ways , but most immediately as a kind of instability in our ordinary descriptions . It seems as though tables and chairs are not ...
... kind -- the kind ' human being ' - and behave according to the laws of that kind . Yet I subsume people and their actions under concepts that will not figure in the formulation of those laws . Indeed , the hallucination of those laws ...
... kind can be attributed to the lower animals : perhaps they can . A dog may feel pleasure , we are apt to suppose , at the prospect of a walk or about his master's return . There are of course highly intricate problems here , and it is ...
... kind of object of pleasure . Thus , in the normal case of sexual arousal , the physical stimulus cannot be detached in thought from ' what is going on ' : from a sense of who is doing what to whom . Tomi Ungerer has produced engravings ...
... kind of depersonalisation of the phallus : it is , to use Hannah Arendt's useful term , ' instrumental- ised'.1 14 It begins to lose some of its intrinsic personal interest , and comes to seem , instead , like the lurid dildos which are ...
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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 |