Pleasure: a history
Like other books in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, Pleasure traces the development of the concept from ancient times through the 20th century. The volume touches on ancient philosophy, including Plato, Aristotle, and Islamic philosophy, through to the early modern era and the development of scientific psychology, as well as contemporary notions of pleasure. Interdisciplinary reflections focus on pleasure in subjects other than philosophy, including music and painting.
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- Full title :Pleasure : a history / edited by Lisa Shapiro.
Summary
Like other books in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series, Pleasure traces the development of the concept from ancient times through the 20th century. The volume touches on ancient philosophy, including Plato, Aristotle, and Islamic philosophy, through to the early modern era and the development of scientific psychology, as well as contemporary notions of pleasure. Interdisciplinary reflections focus on pleasure in subjects other than philosophy, including music and painting.
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- Publication Date:2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190225124, 0190225122, 9780190225131, 0190225130
- oclc:on1025369699
- LC Classification:B105.H36
- Dewey Decimal:128/.4
Table of Contents
Cover; Series; Pleasure; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; List of Abbreviations; Contributors; Plates; 1 Introduction; 2 Two Platonic Criticisms of Pleasure; 3 Aristotle on the Heterogeneity of Pleasure; 4 This So Sullied Flesh? Islamic Approaches to Human Pleasures; Reflection: Engraving Pleasure in Philosophy Teaching Aids; 5 Pleasure in Later Medieval Latin Philosophy: The Case of Thomas Aquinas; 6 Malebranche on Pleasure and Awareness in Sensory Perception; 7 Pleasures, Pains, and Sensible Qualities in Berkeley's Philosophy.
8 Rationally Agential Pleasure? A Kantian ProposalReflection: Musical Pleasure, Difficult Music; 9 John Stuart Mill: "Pleasure" in the Laws of Psychology and the Principle of Morals; Reflection: Pleasure Experience in Schizophrenia; 10 A Contemporary Account of Sensory Pleasure; Bibliography; Index.
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