Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-41029-9 (ISBN)
Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki.
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.
Timo Airaksinen, Ph.D. (Turku, 1975) is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Helsinki. He has published extensively on philosophy of literature (Sade, Kafka, Lovecraft), ethics, and the history of philosophy (Kant, Berkeley, Hobbes).
Preface
Part 1: Analytical Issues
1 Introduction: Depicting Desire
Definitions
Two Types of Desire
Wishful Thinking and Wish Fulfilment
De Re and De Dicto: a Paradox
2 Beliefs and Desires
From Wollheim’s Challenge to Human Needs
Modality: Beliefs as Constraints
Hermeneutical Considerations
Moral Beliefs
The Demise of Directionality
3 Push and Pull Theories of Desire
Background Checks
Russell on Desire
Desirability Demystified
Push Theory Returns
4 Our Anxious Desires
Preliminaries
Sources of Frustration and Anxiety
Immodest Desires
Zero Desires
Desire as a Metonym
5 René Girard and Mimetic Desire
Girard on Desire
Model, Not Desirability
Scripted Desires
Desires, Not My Own
Part 2: Desire in Context
6 Death, Desire, and the Generation of Metaphor
Prelude: Death and Dress
Meaning of Death
Meaning of Desire
Generating Metaphors
7 Kafka: Tropes of Desire
Introduction: Two Persons, Two Tasks, Two Desires
Tropological Considerations: The Trial
Tropological Considerations: The Trial
8 Lost in Kafka’s America
Preliminaries, or False Starts
Empty Metaphors
Irony: From Here to Eternity
9 Thomas Hobbes on Intentionality, Desire, and Happiness
Theories of Happiness
Happiness and Desire
Pleonexia
Desire and Its Intentionality
Egoism
Part 3: Sexuality
10 Sadomasochistic Desire
Kinky Sex
Tropological Delineations
The Riddles of Motivation
Sade and Sadism
Problems with Consent
Safe and Sane?
11 Tricky Sexual Differences: What Is Perversion?
The Tropes of Perversity
Freud: Perverted and Pathological Desires
Nagel: The Substantiality Thesis
Nagel: Ideally Good Sex, or in the Singles Bar
Nagel: The Genesis of Sexual Perversion
Some Probable Reasons for the Success of SP
Cases of Criticism
Conclusion: Anxious Desires
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.09.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy, Literature, and Politics ; 340 |
| Verlagsort | Leiden |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 507 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 90-04-41029-5 / 9004410295 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-41029-9 / 9789004410299 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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