The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution
(Part of the Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts Series)
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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,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231151586
ISBN13:9780231151580
Release Date:February 2016
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:408 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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