The book was written by a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Combining erudition with purely English humor, Simon Blackburn shows how the perception of human sexuality has changed in different eras — from joyful acceptance to categorical refusal, phobias and prejudices.
The book was written by a professor of philosophy at the University of Cambridge. Combining erudition with purely English humor (“Pleasure is fleeting, the pose is ridiculous, and the price is indecent …” — the phrase, however, does not belong to the author, but to the exemplary Englishman Lord Chesterfield), Simon Blackburn shows how the perception of human sexuality changed in different eras — from joyful acceptance to categorical refusal, phobias and prejudices. The author reminds the reader that the natural attraction of a man and a woman, severely branded with the word «lust», can be pure and bring joy if it is free from lies, ideological control and suspicion.
AST, Astrel, Harvest, 2006
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