Lust /Simon Blackburn.

Name/Title

Lust /Simon Blackburn.

Description

Pleasure -- Excess -- Two problems from Plato -- Stiff upper lips -- The Christian panic -- The legacy -- What nature intended -- Some consequences -- Shakespeare versus Dorothy Parker -- Hobbesian unity -- Disasters -- Substitutions -- Evolution and desire -- Overcoming pessimism -- Farewell. xii, 151 p. :ill. (some col.) ;19 cm.

Book Details

Author

Blackburn, Simon.

Place Published

City

[New York] :New York Public Library ;Oxford ;New York

Date Published

2004

Publication Subjects

Lust--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Call No.

BV4627 .L8 B585 2004

ISBN

0195162005 (alk. paper), 9780195162004 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003009327

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-141) and index.