Science of Pleasure - Cosmos and Psyche in the Bourgeois World

Zusatztext `Reading it has been an inspiring and indeed pleasurable experience. Dr Ferguson has produced a full-blown! perfectly accomplished work.' - Gianfranco Poggi Informationen zum Autor Harvie Ferguson Klappentext In this rich and original work, the author argues that science is the highest expression of bourgeois thought and whilst it may have liberated mankind, it has also devised new forms of repression, discipline and control. Zusammenfassung We live, we are told, in bourgeois societies. But what is the bourgeois worldview? In this book, the author argues that science - the attempt to describe the order of things 'objectively' and 'dispassionately' - is the highest expression of bourgeois thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Fun 1. The Dread of Chaos 2. The Fearful Cosmographer 3. The Romance of Signs The Cosmic Body Part Two 4. Hierarchy 5. Release 6. Nature The Mirror of God Part Three: Pleasure 7. Harmony 8. Mechanism 9. Egoism The System of the World Part Four: Excitement 10. Towards a Critique of Bourgeois Psychology 11. Nature's Strangeness 12. The Charm of Decadence The Symmetry of Creation Conclusion: Intimate cosmology

Product details

• Authors: D. B. Ed Ferguson, D. B. Ed. Ferguson, Harvie Ferguson, Ferguson Harvie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1990
• EAN: 9780415044585
• ISBN: 978-0-415-04458-5
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General