Description
Book SynopsisAimed 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.
Trade ReviewIrving 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, Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas, Aust
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 Sex
