Understanding Pornographic Fiction - Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception

Informationen zum Autor Charles O. Nussbaum received his PhD in Philosophy in 1988 from Emory University, USA. He has taught at Northwestern University, Northern Michigan University, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at UT Arlington. His publications include The Musical Representation and papers on the philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and Kant. Klappentext This work defends two main theses. First! modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second! that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism. Zusammenfassung This work defends two main theses. First! modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second! that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface.-Chapter 1: The Protestant Ethic and Modern Western Pornographic Fiction.- Chapter 2: Literary Discourse and Pragmatic Implicature.- Chapter 3: Pornographic Fiction, Implicature, and Imaginative Resistance.- Chapter 4: Pornographic Fiction and Personal Integrity. Select Bibliography

List of contents

Preface.-Chapter 1: The Protestant Ethic and Modern Western Pornographic Fiction.- Chapter 2: Literary Discourse and Pragmatic Implicature.- Chapter 3: Pornographic Fiction, Implicature, and Imaginative Resistance.- Chapter 4: Pornographic Fiction and Personal Integrity. Select Bibliography 

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Millar, Charles Nussbaum, Charles Millar Nussbaum
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781137556752
• ISBN: 978-1-137-55675-2
• No. of pages: 196
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; B, Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics, Ethics, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary theory, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics, Language and languages—Philosophy, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Psychology of gender, Literature—Philosophy, Sexual psychology, Sexual Behavior, Behavioral Neuroscience, Psychology: sexual behaviour