| Description |
1 online resource (x, 225 pages). |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; volume 340. Philosophy, literature, and politics |
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Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics ; 340.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Analytical Issues -- Introduction: Depicting Desire -- Beliefs and Desires -- Push and Pull Theories of Desire -- Our Anxious Desires -- René Girard and Mimetic Desire -- Desire in Context: Philosophy and Literature -- Death, Desire, and the Generation of Metaphor -- Kafka: Tropes of Desire -- Lost in Kafka's America -- Thomas Hobbes on Intentionality, Desire, and Happiness -- Sexuality -- Sadomasochistic Desire -- Tricky Sexual Differences: What Is Perversion? -- Back Matter -- Index. |
| Summary |
"Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka's main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor and metonymy in connection with topics like death and then applies them to Kafka's texts. The third part makes an effort to understand the mysteries of sadism and masochism in philosophical and rhetorical terms. The last article criticizes Thomas Nagel's influential account of sexual perversion and develops a viable alternative"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Note |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 05, 2020). |
| Subject |
Desire (Philosophy)
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Désir (Philosophie)
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PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
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Desire (Philosophy)
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(FrPBN)12109978 Désir (philosophie)
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(FrPBN)11933081 Perversion sexuelle.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Airaksinen, Timo, 1947- Vagaries of desire Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2019. 9789004410299 (DLC) 2019025587 |
| ISBN |
9789004410305 electronic book |
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9004410309 electronic book |
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9789004410299 hardcover |
| Standard No. |
AU@ 000065828496 |
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