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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Tác giả chính: Blackburn, Simon, 1944- (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: [New York] : Oxford ; New York : New York Public Library ; Oxford University Press, 2004.
Loạt:Seven deadly sins.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=179912
Mục lục:
  • 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.