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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812929303321

Autore

Ferguson Harvie

Titolo

The science of pleasure : cosmos and psyche in the bourgeois world view / / Harvie Ferguson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1990

ISBN

1-138-46819-3

1-134-94987-1

1-280-13936-6

9786610139361

0-203-99294-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Disciplina

302.12

303.3/72/08622

Soggetti

Civilization, Western

Cosmology - History

Pleasure - History

Psychology - History

Science - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Part One FUN; Part Two HAPPINESS; Part Three PLEASURE; Part Four EXCITEMENT

Sommario/riassunto

In this rich and original work, the author argues that science is the highest expression of bourgeois thought and whilst it may have liberated mankind, it has also devised new forms of repression, discipline and control.