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Description for Sex
Hardback. Aimed at people with or without a philosophical background, this book explores elemental principles in the study of sex, love and compassion. Sex and sexuality are discussed both as an appetite and as an interpersonal drive, as well as from the moral and aesthetical views of human nature. Num Pages: 152 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPM; JMU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 350.
This book explores elemental principles in the study of sex while addressing readers who are not trained philosophers as well as those who are. Singer locates sex within a spectrum that also includes love and compassion. He claims that fundamental mistakes have persistently occurred because numerous theorists relegate sex, love, and compassion to separate and distinct compartments. His emphasis upon the internal linkage between sexuality and the varieties of love is further elaborated in later portions of the book: in relation to a distinction that Singer makes between 'the sensuous' and 'the passionate,' followed by consecutive ideas about the nature ... Read more
This book explores elemental principles in the study of sex while addressing readers who are not trained philosophers as well as those who are. Singer locates sex within a spectrum that also includes love and compassion. He claims that fundamental mistakes have persistently occurred because numerous theorists relegate sex, love, and compassion to separate and distinct compartments. His emphasis upon the internal linkage between sexuality and the varieties of love is further elaborated in later portions of the book: in relation to a distinction that Singer makes between 'the sensuous' and 'the passionate,' followed by consecutive ideas about the nature ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780742512368
SKU
V9780742512368
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About Irving Singer
Irving Singer is professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Feeling and Imagination and Explorations in Love and Sex.
Reviews for Sex
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.
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