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...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Blackburn, Simon, 1944- (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: [New York] : Oxford ; New York : New York Public Library ; Oxford University Press, 2004.
シリーズ:Seven deadly sins.
オンライン・アクセス:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=179912
目次:
  • 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.