Ashbee was a wealthy and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his smart chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: a collection of erotica and pornography. Acclaimed biographer Ian Gibson has created a marvellous portrait of Ashbee.
"To all intents and purposes, Henry Spencer Ashbee was a prosperous and respectable Victorian gentleman. But his well-upholstered chambers in Gray's Inn concealed a shocking secret: Ashbee's vast collection of erotica and pornography, thousands of volumes strong." "Acclaimed bio…
While humanists have pondered the subject of love to the point of obsessiveness, philosophers have steadfastly ignored it. One might wonder whether the discipline of philosophy even recognizes love. The word philosophy means "love of wisdom," but the absence of love from philoso…
"In this now-classic study, Linda Williams moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does--as a genre with a history, as a specific cinematic form, and as part of contemporary discourse on sexuality. For th…
Dante's Lyric Redemption uses Dante's relationship to some important Italian and Provencal writers of his time to highlight his radical and distinctive handling of the relationship between erotic love and salvation.
This book examines feminist philosophical analyses of sexual oppression of women by men, and brings them into conversation with phenomenological, ontological, and psychoanalytical accounts of erotic experience and sexual difference. Erotic relation with the other is about a corp…
Ontologies of sex: philosophy in sexual politics
This book examines feminist philosophical analyses of sexual oppression of women by men, and brings them into conversation with phenomenological, ontological, and psychoanalytical accounts of erotic experience and sexual difference. Erotic relation with the other is about a corp…