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Paperback The Poisoned Embrace: A Brief History of Sexual Pessimism Book

ISBN: 0679754148

ISBN13: 9780679754145

The Poisoned Embrace: A Brief History of Sexual Pessimism

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The Poisoned Embrace is a provocative investigation into the history of sexual pessimism as it has evolved in Western theology throughout the ages. Since the days of the Early Fathers, sex and death... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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elegant essay

Enjoyed this strange little book, which is one of those Sontag-like essays which take in a lot during a kind of bicycle tour of cultural hang ups - it's slight, but intended to be so.Of course, you need a sophisticated reader here, with a light sense of humor...

elegant and witty diversion

This is that unusual mix : a scholarly intellectual polemic which is also hilarious in a dry Brit way - by a young scholar-writer who I hope will soon publish something else soon. The stuff on witchcraft and the conquest of the New World is fascinating and really elegantly done
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