Lust [[electronic resource] /] / Simon Blackburn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910784846503321
• Autore: Blackburn Simon <1944->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [New York], : New York Public Library; Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004
• ISBN: 1-280-83825-6; 0-19-534754-4; 1-4294-3097-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (182 p.)
• Collana: The seven deadly sins
• Disciplina: 176
• Soggetti: Lust - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; EDITOR'S NOTE; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE: Desire; CHAPTER TWO: Excess; CHAPTER THREE: Two Problems from Plato; CHAPTER FOUR: Stiff Upper Lips; CHAPTER FIVE: The Christian Panic; CHAPTER SIX: The Legacy; CHAPTER SEVEN: What Nature Intended; CHAPTER EIGHT: Some Consequences; CHAPTER NINE: Shakespeare versus Dorothy Parker; CHAPTER TEN: Hobbesian Unity; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Disasters; CHAPTER TWELVE: Substitutions; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Evolution and Desire; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Overcoming Pessimism; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Farewell; NOTES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust ""from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue."". Blackburn, author of such popular philosophy books as Think and Being Good, here offers a sharp-edged probe into the heart of lust, blending together insight from some