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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... true of the Lebenswelt , whose objects are identified by descriptions that are , or aim to be , transparent to our experience and purposes . The objects of the Lebenswelt are conceived under classifications that reflect our own ...
... as a result of evidence . Such ' thin ' beliefs are unscientific , since they employ concepts which are opaque to scientific method . But they may be true or false , and reasonable or unreasonable . For I 2 SEXUAL DESIRE.
A Philosophical Investigation Roger Scruton. true or false , and reasonable or unreasonable . For they are typically caused not by our needs but by our perception of how things are . The same is true generally of the concepts which ...
... true that in such a case there are strong proprieties at work , derived from our sense of permitted sexual relations . In the societies to which I and my readers belong , kissing has become too much a symbol of the sexual act to be ...
... true of the glance of desire as it is of the glance of love that it concentrates into itself the whole life of the human being , constituting a direct appeal to the other to recognise my embodied existence . The experience has been well ...
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 |