Alternative Pleasures
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Alternative Pleasures
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Author : Philip Stevick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981-01-01
Alternative Pleasures written by Philip Stevick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with categories.
Alternative Pleasures
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Author : Philip Stevick
language : en
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1981
Alternative Pleasures written by Philip Stevick and has been published by Urbana : University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Literary Criticism categories.
Troubled Pleasures
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Author : Kate Soper
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1990-11-17
Troubled Pleasures written by Kate Soper and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-11-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
What happens when ‘life’s simple joys’ become complicated? When pleasure is transformed as a function of consumption, the innocent comforts of food, nature and place are embedded in complex practices of distribution and exploitation. Exotic and diverse objects of pleasure are made available only at the price of a heightened awareness of their origins, genealogies and possible effects; ‘authenticity’ recedes behind objects produced as pleasures. Troubled Pleasures considers the ways in which modern pleasure is fraught with unhappy implications, at the same time as contemporary critical arguments put into question the touchstones of identity, morality, subjectivity and desire. It brings together writings which explore the sources of pleasure’s ‘loss of innocence’, and which argue the case for a scrupulous ‘alternative hedonism’. Including essays on human needs, socialism and gender, a feminist response to Joyce’s Ulysses, and a fictional reflection on appetite and excess, Troubled Pleasures plots an Epicurean path between righteous asceticism and conspicuous consumption.
Unexpected Pleasures
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Author : Lauryl Tucker
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2022-01-15
Unexpected Pleasures written by Lauryl Tucker and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
What are the sources—and the effects—of the pleasurable feeling of power that genre gives us? What happens to that power when conventionality tips into parody? In this book, Lauryl Tucker explores the connection between genre parody and queerness in twentieth-century British fiction. Teasing out the parodic sensibility of writers including Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, Sam Selvon, Dorothy Sayers, Stella Gibbons, and Zadie Smith, Unexpected Pleasures offers an innovative reading of works that seem to excessively obey the rules of genre. By oversupplying the pleasurable sense of knowledge and the illusion of predictive power that genre confers, these works play with readerly expectation in order to expose and queer a broader set of assumptions about desire, resolution, and futurity. Unexpected Pleasures expands on a burgeoning critical interest in genre as an interpretive tool, and further diversifies the archive and methodology of queer critique. Gathering a surprising group of writers together, it reveals new throughlines between middlebrow and highbrow, and among modernist, mid-century, and contemporary literature. This book will interest scholars of modernist and contemporary British literature, as well as readers interested in narrative and queer theory.
Post Growth Living
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Author : Kate Soper
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Post Growth Living written by Kate Soper and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with Philosophy categories.
An urgent and passionate plea for a new and ecologically sustainable vision of the good life. The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist, capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth, and endless consumption of cheap disposable commodities isn't only destroying the world, it is damaging ourselves and our way of being. How do we stop the impending catastrophe, and how can we create a movement capable of confronting it head-on? In Post-Growth Living, philosopher Kate Soper offers an urgent plea for a new vision of the good life, one that is capable of delinking prosperity from endless growth. Instead, she calls for a renewed emphasis on the joys of being, one that is capable of collective happiness not in consumption but by creating a future that allows not only for more free time, and less conventional and more creative ways of using it, but also for more fulfilling ways of working and existing. This is an urgent and necessary intervention into debates on climate change.
The Pleasures Of Reason In Plato Aristotle And The Hellenistic Hedonists
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Author : James Warren
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-27
The Pleasures Of Reason In Plato Aristotle And The Hellenistic Hedonists written by James Warren and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-27 with Education categories.
How did ancient philosophers understand the relationship between human capacities for thinking and our experiences of pleasure and pain?
Visual And Other Pleasures
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Author : Laura Mulvey
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1989-03-01
Visual And Other Pleasures written by Laura Mulvey and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-03-01 with Social Science categories.
The essays collected in this book reflect some of the commitments and changes during the period that saw the women's movement shift into feminism and the development of feminism's involvement with the politics of representation, psychoanalytic film theory and avant-garde aesthetics.
Reasonable Pleasures
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Author : James V. Schall
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2013-07-30
Reasonable Pleasures written by James V. Schall and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-30 with Religion categories.
The fact of pleasure is obvious to us, but its relation to reason is less understood. We are beings who laugh and run, sing and dance, but we too seldom reflect on why we do these things. Above all, we are beings who think and who want to know whether our lives make sense. In this thought-provoking study of the relationship between our reason and our experience of pleasure, popular professor and author Fr. James Schall shows how reason, religion and pleasure are not in conflict with one another. Religion has to do with how man relates to God. Catholicism is not so much a religion as a revelation. It records and recalls how God relates to man. The popular mood of our time is that neither religion nor revelation has much to do with real life. Yet when we look at things as having meaning and order, they fit together in surprising ways. This coherence should bring us joy, and teach us how reason, religion and pleasure can work together for our benefit. Schall shows us in this book why we have many reasons to think that our lives make sense, that our pleasures can be reasonable, and our reason itself is a pleasure.
Oxford Studies In Ancient Philosophy
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Author : Victor Caston
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-11
Oxford Studies In Ancient Philosophy written by Victor Caston and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-11 with Philosophy categories.
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. "'Have you seen the latest OSAP?' is what scholars of ancient philosophy say to each other when they meet in corridors or on coffee breaks. Whether you work on Plato or Aristotle, on Presocratics or sophists, on Stoics, Epicureans, or Sceptics, on Roman philosophers or Greek Neoplatonists, you are liable to find OSAP articles now dominant in the bibliography of much serious published work in your particular subject: not safe to miss." - Malcolm Schofield, Cambridge University "OSAP was founded to provide a place for long pieces on major issues in ancient philosophy. In the years since, it has fulfilled this role with great success, over and over again publishing groundbreaking papers on what seemed to be familiar topics and others surveying new ground to break. It represents brilliantly the vigour - and the increasingly broad scope - of scholarship in ancient philosophy, and shows us all how the subject should flourish." - M.M. McCabe, King's College London
Slow Pleasure
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Author : Euphemia Russell
language : en
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Release Date : 2022-03-30
Slow Pleasure written by Euphemia Russell and has been published by Hardie Grant Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-30 with categories.
A modern guide to sex and pleasure, showing you how slowing down will help you tune into your body so you can heighten your sense of pleasure and connection.