Sexual desire : a philosophical investigation / / Roger Scruton
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| Autore: |
Scruton Roger
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| Titolo: |
Sexual desire : a philosophical investigation / / Roger Scruton
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| Pubblicazione: | London, [England] : , : Continuum, , 2006 |
| ©2006 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (439 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 176 |
| 306.701 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Sex |
| Sexual ethics | |
| Sensuality | |
| Sex (Psychology) | |
| Note generali: | Includes indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Preface; 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 Sex and gender; 10 Perversion; 11 Sexual morality; 12 The politics of sex; Epilogue; Appendix 1 The first person; Appendix 2 Intentionality; Notes; Index of Names; Index of Subjects |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 pra |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sexual desire |
| ISBN: | 1-283-20675-7 |
| 9786613206756 | |
| 1-4411-6556-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817815703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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