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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... question which this ' scientific ' literature has contrived to ignore : the question of what a person experiences when he desires another . Desire is identical neither with the ' instinct ' which is expressed in it nor with the love ...
... questions touches upon one of the deepest and most astonishing of facts about our nature as rational agents . I shall consider the important expressions of sexual feeling : glances , caresses and the act of love itself . I shall try to ...
... question is an expression of the deeper essence , reason itself , which all human behaviour displays . We should not conclude , however , that it is only as an active being that man displays his distinctive causality . Men are ...
... question ( a favourite dog , say ) is treated as if he were a person . Not , perhaps , a very developed person , and not even a fully responsible person . But nevertheless a creature with at least one of the attributes that ...
... questions that I have been considering . Those questions concern the perceived surface of things , from which our mental concepts take their sense . I believe that there is a significant phenomenon , to which I have given the name ...
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 |