Description
'A dazzling treatise, as erudite and eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and considerably more sound in its conclusion' - TLS
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.
Table of Contents
Advice to the Reader
1 The Problem
2 Arousal
3 Persons
4 Desire
5 The individual object
6 Sexual phenomena
7 The science of sex
8 Love
9 Perversion
10 Sexual Morality
11 The Politics of Sex
Epilogue
Appendix I: The first person
Appendix II: Intentionality
Notes
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Product details
| Published | 15 Jun 2015 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 448 |
| ISBN | 9781472927842 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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