The Autonomy of Pleasure : : Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution / / James Steintrager.
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 fr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) :; 40 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Whose Sexual Revolution?
- Chapter one. A Thousand Modes of Venery: Coital Positions as Actions and Communications
- Chapter two. Voluptuary Architecture: Organizing, Policing, and Producing Pleasure
- Chapter three. Sodomy and Reason: Making Sense of the Libertine Preference
- Chapter four. "the obscene organ of brute pleasure": Social Functions of the Clitoris
- Chapter five. The Fury of Her Kindness: What Should a Libertine Know About Orgasm?
- Chapter six. Color and Caprice: The Politics and Aesthetics of Interracial Relations
- Chapter seven. Canonizing Sade: Eros, Democracy, and Differentiation
- Notes
- Index