Reason and Sexuality in Western Thought
This book traces the genealogy of ideas of reason, self and sexuality in the West, opening the way to a richer and more diverse understanding of sexual experience.Western philosophy and religion have distorted and continue to distort our experience of sex and love through three far-reaching constellations of reason, self and sexuality. Thinkers like Plato, Aquinas and Kant helped to fashion an ascetic ideal of reason hostile to bodily pleasures and sexual diversity. By contrast, philosophical hedonism advocates a less demanding conception of rationality and defends sexual pleasure. But this approach of thinkers like Hume, Bentham, La Mettrie…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7456-2422-8
- EAN: 9780745624228
- Produktnummer: 1667753
- Verlag: Polity Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H22.8 cm x B15.4 cm x D1.9 cm 380 g
- Gewicht: 380
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
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