Science of Pleasure - Cosmos and Psyche in the Bourgeois World

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Harvie Ferguson, Ferguson Harvie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.08.2017
• EAN: 9781138468191
• ISBN: 978-1-138-46819-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology