Description
When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence, passion, love and arousal, desire, perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, he surveys the entire field of sexuality; equally dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness, he argues for a radical break with recent theories. Upholding traditional morality - though in terms that may shock many of its practitioners - his argument gravitates to that which is candid, serene and consoling in the experience of sexual love.
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.22w x 1.28d
ISBN13: 9780826480385
ISBN10: 0826480381
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)
- Philosophy | Political
Author: Roger Scruton
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 448
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.22w x 1.28d
ISBN13: 9780826480385
ISBN10: 0826480381
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Psychology | Human Sexuality (see also Social Science | Human Sexuality)
- Philosophy | Political
About the Author
Professor Roger Scruton is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington and Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. His other books include Sexual Desire, The West and the Rest, England: An Elegy, News from Somewhere and Gentle Regrets (all published by Continuum).
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