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035 _a(DE-B1597)9780231540872
035 _a(DE-B1597)458516
035 _a(OCoLC)979577924
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082 0 4 _a306.7094409/033
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSteintrager, James
_eautore
245 1 4 _aThe Autonomy of Pleasure :
_bLibertines, License, and Sexual Revolution /
_cJames Steintrager.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2016]
264 4 _c©2016
300 _a1 online resource (408 p.) :
_b40 illustrations
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aColumbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Whose Sexual Revolution? --
_tChapter one. A Thousand Modes of Venery: Coital Positions as Actions and Communications --
_tChapter two. Voluptuary Architecture: Organizing, Policing, and Producing Pleasure --
_tChapter three. Sodomy and Reason: Making Sense of the Libertine Preference --
_tChapter four. "the obscene organ of brute pleasure": Social Functions of the Clitoris --
_tChapter five. The Fury of Her Kindness: What Should a Libertine Know About Orgasm? --
_tChapter six. Color and Caprice: The Politics and Aesthetics of Interracial Relations --
_tChapter seven. Canonizing Sade: Eros, Democracy, and Differentiation --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aWhat 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, rapturous-and potentially horrific.Laying out the logic and willful illogic of radical libertinage, this book ties the Enlightenment engagement with sexual license to the expansion of print, empiricism, the revival of skepticism, the fashionable arts and lifestyles of the Ancien Régime, and the rise and decline of absolutism. It examines the consequences of imagining sexual pleasure as sovereign power and a law unto itself across a range of topics, including sodomy, the science of sexual difference, political philosophy, aesthetics, and race. It also analyzes the roots of radical claims for pleasure in earlier licentious satire and their echoes in appeals for sexual liberation in the 1960s and beyond.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aSex customs
_zFrance
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/stei15158
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231540872
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