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Vagaries of desire : a collection of philosophical essays / Timo Airaksinen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Value inquiry book series. Philosophy, literature, and politics ; ; 340.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, [2019]Description: 1 online resource (x, 225 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004410305
  • 9004410309
Uniform titles:
  • Essays. Selections
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Vagaries of desireLOC classification:
  • B105.D44 A37 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Analytical Issues -- Introduction: Depicting Desire -- Beliefs and Desires -- Push and Pull Theories of Desire -- Our Anxious Desires -- René Girard and Mimetic Desire -- Desire in Context: Philosophy and Literature -- Death, Desire, and the Generation of Metaphor -- Kafka: Tropes of Desire -- Lost in Kafka's America -- Thomas Hobbes on Intentionality, Desire, and Happiness -- Sexuality -- Sadomasochistic Desire -- Tricky Sexual Differences: What Is Perversion? -- Back Matter -- Index.
Summary: "Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka's main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor and metonymy in connection with topics like death and then applies them to Kafka's texts. The third part makes an effort to understand the mysteries of sadism and masochism in philosophical and rhetorical terms. The last article criticizes Thomas Nagel's influential account of sexual perversion and develops a viable alternative"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Analytical Issues -- Introduction: Depicting Desire -- Beliefs and Desires -- Push and Pull Theories of Desire -- Our Anxious Desires -- René Girard and Mimetic Desire -- Desire in Context: Philosophy and Literature -- Death, Desire, and the Generation of Metaphor -- Kafka: Tropes of Desire -- Lost in Kafka's America -- Thomas Hobbes on Intentionality, Desire, and Happiness -- Sexuality -- Sadomasochistic Desire -- Tricky Sexual Differences: What Is Perversion? -- Back Matter -- Index.

"Vagaries of Desire is a major collection of new essays by Timo Airaksinen on the philosophy of desire. The first part develops a novel account of the philosophical theory of desire, including Girard. The second part discusses Kafka's main works, namely The Castle, The Trial, and Amerika, and Thomas Hobbes and the problems of intentionality. The text develops such linguistic tropes as metaphor and metonymy in connection with topics like death and then applies them to Kafka's texts. The third part makes an effort to understand the mysteries of sadism and masochism in philosophical and rhetorical terms. The last article criticizes Thomas Nagel's influential account of sexual perversion and develops a viable alternative"-- Provided by publisher.

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