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Erotic Perception: Philosophical Portraits
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Erotic Perception: Philosophical Portraits Paperback - 1997

by James Waddell


From the publisher

This book shows that scientific explanations fall short of providing an exhaustive explanation of the dynamics of erotic perception. It furnishes portraits from Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, and Irigaray that help us understand the ethical, ontological, and religious dimensions of the pleasure, pain, hostility, shame, immodesty, tenderness, caring, and playfulness that compose erotic perception. The final portrait in the book portrays erotic perception as a challenge to existence. This portrait shows that the discernment of the other as sexually significant gives rise to wonder, excitement, agitation, and trouble. The totality of existence is disturbed as we are faced with a decision about venturing to care for the other's existence.

Details

  • Title Erotic Perception: Philosophical Portraits
  • Author James Waddell
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 152
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of America, Lanham, MD
  • Date 1997-06
  • ISBN 9780761807728 / 0761807721
  • Weight 0.47 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.42 x 5.38 x 0.47 in (21.39 x 13.67 x 1.19 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-1321
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.701

About the author

James Waddell is President and Professor of Philosophy at Menlo College in Atherton, California.