LEADER 03782nam 2200625 450 001 9910807953103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-231-54087-6 024 7 $a10.7312/stei15158 035 $a(CKB)3710000000576218 035 $a(EBL)4206313 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001594972 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16289182 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001594972 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)12753678 035 $a(PQKB)10219984 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001305187 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4206313 035 $a(DE-B1597)458516 035 $a(OCoLC)979577924 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231540872 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4206313 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11210933 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL884758 035 $a(OCoLC)936117842 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000576218 100 $a20160531h20162016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe autonomy of pleasure $elibertines, license, and sexual revolution /$fJames A. Steintrager 210 1$aNew York :$cColumbia University Press,$d2016. 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (409 p.) 225 1 $aColumbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-231-15158-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Whose Sexual Revolution? -- $tChapter one. A Thousand Modes of Venery: Coital Positions as Actions and Communications -- $tChapter two. Voluptuary Architecture: Organizing, Policing, and Producing Pleasure -- $tChapter three. Sodomy and Reason: Making Sense of the Libertine Preference -- $tChapter four. "the obscene organ of brute pleasure": Social Functions of the Clitoris -- $tChapter five. The Fury of Her Kindness: What Should a Libertine Know About Orgasm? -- $tChapter six. Color and Caprice: The Politics and Aesthetics of Interracial Relations -- $tChapter seven. Canonizing Sade: Eros, Democracy, and Differentiation -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems, and engravings, they wrenched pleasure free from religion and morality, from politics, aesthetics, anatomy, and finally reason itself, and imagined how such a world would be desirable, legitimate, rapturous-and potentially horrific.Laying out the logic and willful illogic of radical libertinage, this book ties the Enlightenment engagement with sexual license to the expansion of print, empiricism, the revival of skepticism, the fashionable arts and lifestyles of the Ancien Régime, and the rise and decline of absolutism. It examines the consequences of imagining sexual pleasure as sovereign power and a law unto itself across a range of topics, including sodomy, the science of sexual difference, political philosophy, aesthetics, and race. It also analyzes the roots of radical claims for pleasure in earlier licentious satire and their echoes in appeals for sexual liberation in the 1960s and beyond. 410 0$aColumbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts. 606 $aSex customs$zFrance$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aFrance$xMoral conditions 615 0$aSex customs$xHistory 676 $a306.7094409033 700 $aSteintrager$b James A.$f1965-$01663303 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807953103321 996 $aThe autonomy of pleasure$94020507 997 $aUNINA