Desire: the concept and its practical context
by Airaksinen, Timo, Gasparski, Wojciech
fromPraxiology
Desire is a rich term meaning wish and want, willingness and relish, appetite and lust. This volume is an effort to analyze the concept of desire and its different practical contexts from a morally philosophic point of view. By analyzing multiple definitions and studying underly…
Feeling like doing something is not the same as deciding to do it. You may have an inclination to do it, but there is still a moment where you can decide to do it or not. This moment of decision presents a puzzle: if being inclined to do something is a form of motivation, or sel…
Feeling like doing something is not the same as deciding to do it. You may have an inclination to do it, but there is still a moment where you can decide to do it or not. This moment of decision presents a puzzle: if being inclined to do something is a form of motivation, or sel…
Feeling Like It investigates the relationship between being inclined to do something and being moved to do it. Schapiro defends a Kant-inspired ""inner-animal"" view, and argues that provides a better view of inclination and will than some familar theories.
Wish-fulfilment as a singular means of satisfying ineluctable desire is a pivotal concept in classical psychoanalysis. Freud argued that it was the thread that united dreams, daydreams, phantasy, omnipotent thinking, neurotic and some psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations an…
Introduction -- Chapter 1: Denaturalising Desire -- Chapter 2: Paranoid Psychosis -- Chapter 3: Crime and Punishment -- Chapter 4: Lacan with Kant -- Chapter 5: Lacan with Marx -- Conclusion. "Lacan: A Genealogy provides a genealogical account of Lacan's work as a whole, from h…
What is a desire? Our wants must often compete with our beliefs about what we ought to do. This book defends ""desire as belief"", a view in which desires are a special subset of our normative beliefs, and in which we can accept orthodox models of human motivation while also mak…
The essays in this volume all ask what it means for human beings to be embodied as desiring creatures-and perhaps still more piercingly, what it means for a philosopher to be embodied. In taking up this challenge via phenomenology, psychoanalysis, hermeneutics, and the philosoph…