{"product_id":"2940013820524","title":"Philosophy of Sex and Love","description":"This is an introductory textbook in the philosophy of sex and love by one of America’s best known authors on the topic. It is a critical overview of the nature, and the ethics, of sex and love. Most of the book focuses how 20th-century thinkers in various intellectual traditions have conceived of sexuality and love. Throughout, the book’s approach to the philosophy of sex and love is analytic, historical, and social.\u2028\u2028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTopics addressed include the nature of sexual pleasure, sexual desire, and sexual activity; the relationship between judgments about the biological, psychological, and social natures of human beings and judgments that certain sexual behaviors or desires are sexually perverted; the possibility of constructing plausible and comprehensive principles of sexual ethics; the moral and social issues of rape, Pornography, prostitution, adultery, promiscuity, masturbation, abortion, and contraception; the varieties and forms of love; the connections, logical and psychological, among sexuality, love, friendship, and marriage; and how issues within the philosophy of sex and love look different once gender is taken into account.\u2028\u2028\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthors discussed include, from the history of philosophy, Plato, Aristotle, Paul, Augustine, Aquinas, Kant, Hume, Kierkegaard, and Russell; and, from among our contemporaries, Andrea Dworkin, Catharine MacKinnon, Michel Foucault, Carol Gilligan, Martha Nussbaum, Lillian Rubin, and Roger Scruton.","brand":"Paragon House Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47181180338416,"sku":"2940013820524","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013820524_p0.jpg?v=1763595159","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013820524","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}