Lust

Name: Lust
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ISBN: 9780195312072

ISBN-10: 0195312074

ISBN-13: 9780195312072

Edition: 2007

Authors: Simon Blackburn

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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 of the world's greatest thinkers on sex, human nature, and our common cultural foibles. Blackburn…

Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Editor's Note


Preface


Introduction



Desire



Excess



Two Problems from Plato



Stiff Upper Lips



The Christian Panic



The Legacy



What Nature Intended



Some Consequences



Shakespeare versus Dorothy Parker



Hobbesian Unity



Disasters



Substitutions



Evolution and Desire



Overcoming Pessimism



Farewell


Notes


Index