Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewA philosophical primer designed for the general reader as well as professionals in various fields, this book studies sex in itself and in its relation to love and compassion. It distinguishes between sensuous and passionate elements of sexuality and shows how sex in human beings is both appetitive and interpersonal. It then explores the ways in which our sexuality is always subject to aesthetic and moral valuation in relation to the appetitive and interpersonal coordinates. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Irving SingerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Dimensions: Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.345kg ISBN: 9780742512368ISBN 10: 0742512363 Pages: 152 Publication Date: 11 July 2001 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Sex, Love, Compassion Chapter 3 Patterns of the Sensuous and the Passionate Chapter 4 The Nature and Evaluation of Sex Chapter 5 Criteria of Sexual Goodness: Pleasure, Enjoyment and Satisfaction, Completeness and Reciprocity, Love, Embodyment and Absorption, Natural and Unnatural Chapter 6 Is There an Art of Sex? Chapter 7 Conclusion: Toward a Theory of SexReviewsIrving Singer offers us his mature reflections on the nature and evaluation of human sexuality in this important new study-a welcome addition to his earlier pathbreaking writings on the philosophy of love. He is, as always, illuminating, insightful, and persuasive. I recommend it without reservation to all who are interested in broad philosophical questions of love and sex. -- Robert M. Stewart, California State University at Chico This book demonstrates the scholarly rigor and lucid writing that we have come to expect from Singer. -- Robert C. Solomon, University of Texas at Austin Irving Singer offers us his mature reflections on the nature and evaluation of human sexuality in this important new study--a welcome addition to his earlier pathbreaking writings on the philosophy of love. He is, as always, illuminating, insightful, and persuasive. I recommend it without reservation to all who are interested in broad philosophical questions of love and sex.--Robert M. Stewart Irving Singer offers us his mature reflections on the nature and evaluation of human sexuality in this important new study--a welcome addition to his earlier pathbreaking writings on the philosophy of love. He is, as always, illuminating, insightful, and persuasive. I recommend it without reservation to all who are interested in broad philosophical questions of love and sex. -- Robert M. Stewart This book demonstrates the scholarly rigor and lucid writing that we have come to expect from Singer. -- Solomon, Robert C. Author InformationIrving Singer is professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Feeling and Imagination and Explorations in Love and Sex. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
