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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... person and thing . Only a person has rights , duties and obligations ; only a person acts for reasons in addition to causes ; only a person merits our praise , blame or anger . And it is as persons that we perceive and act upon one ...
... person might similarly require us to understand a kind of perception : to understand what it is to see human beings as persons . And this perception in turn may not be easily disentangled from the culture that is built upon it , or from ...
... person ' . ) Moreover , whatever we say about the pleasure of masturbation , it has to be recognised that there is much more to the sexual act than its final stage : there is a desire to kiss and caress , and pleasures associated with ...
... person takes in another , when expressing his affection — that is transformed . It is not the ' physical pleasure ' ( whatever that may be ) felt in the mouth or on the cheek , but what I shall call the ' intentional pleasure ...
... person . This is brought out vividly by the possibility of deception . Someone may discover that the fingers which are touching him are not , as he thought , those of his lover , but those of an interloper . His pleasure ( in the normal ...
Inhalt
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16 | |
36 | |
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 |