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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... normal forms , then it must be given the institutional conditions that it demands intrinsically . The problem of sexual desire becomes , in the end , a political problem , and the somewhat conservative moral conclusions that I shall ...
... normal case . And they form an important part of the experience ; in particular their capacity to ' overcome ' the subject , so that he is ' mastered ' by them , acquires an important role in the intentionality of desire . For 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 of ' fucking machines ' -- machines ...
... normal case ) instantly turns to disgust : it suffers , indeed , the same kind of reversal as is suffered by an emotion , when the belief upon which it is founded is shown to be false . Thus sexual pleasure , like an emotion , may be in ...
... normal case , the intention is that the other's desire be precipitated , not by a recognition of my intention , but by a recognition of my desire . The intended reciprocity here is perhaps sufficiently like that of meaning to enable us ...
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 |