Lust /

Publisher's description: 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...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Blackburn, Simon, 1944- (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: [New York] : Oxford ; New York : New York Public Library ; Oxford University Press, 2004.
Collection:Seven deadly sins.
Accès en ligne:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=179912
Table des matières:
  • Pleasure
  • 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.