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The autonomy of pleasure : libertines, license, and sexual revolution /
What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented with this idea during the Enlightment. They wrenched pleasure free from religion and morality, from politics, aesthetics, anatomy, and fina...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: whose sexual revolution?
- A thousand modes of venery : coital positions as actions and communications
- Voluptuary architecture : organizing, policing, and producing pleasure
- Sodomy and reason : making sense of the libertine preference
- "The obscene organ of brute pleasure" : social functions of the clitoris
- The fury of her kindness : what should a libertine know about orgasm?
- Color and caprice: the politics and aesthetics of interracial relations
- Canonizing Sade : eros, democracy, and differentiation
- Notes
- Index.