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23%OFFJames Steintrager - The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution - 9780231151580 - V9780231151580
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The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution

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Description for The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution Hardback. Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts. Num Pages: 40 pages, 40 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HPN; JFC; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, poems, and engravings, they wrenched pleasure free from religion and morality, from politics, aesthetics, anatomy, and finally reason itself, and imagined how such a world would be desirable, legitimate, rapturous-and potentially horrific. Laying out the logic and willful illogic of radical libertinage, this book ties the Enlightenment engagement with sexual license to the expansion of print, empiricism, the revival of skepticism, the fashionable arts and ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Series
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
Condition
New
Weight
695g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231151580
SKU
V9780231151580
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About James Steintrager
James A. Steintrager is professor of English, comparative literature, and European languages and studies at the University of California, Irvine.

Reviews for The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution
The Autonomy of Pleasure is an important work that adds richly to our understanding of libertine literature in eighteenth-century France and, more generally, of the culture of pleasure that emerged in aristocratic and leisurely social circles. James A. Steintrager's interpretation of libertinage is innovatively different from existing scholarship, weaving suggestively and cogently between the eighteenth-century context and the present.
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