About this title: Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the denunciations of old men of the deserts, to deliver it from the pallid and envious confessor and the stocks and pillories of the Puritans, to drag it from the category of sin to that of virtue." Blackburn, author of such popular philosophy books as Think and Being Good, here offers a sharp-edged probe into the heart of lust, blending together insight from some of ...
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"Blackburn doesn't focus as much on the culture as on the tiny philosophical gradations of definition of the idea of LUST. And so I lost interest. There were a couple of interesting ideas though.
First was the suggestion by Roger Scruton that before there is a specific object for sexual desire, ie. a person, that desire does not really exist. Blackburn argues that it does, because a sailor getting off a boat has a desire to ease his "womanlessness," and that when he finds a woman he may transfer all his attentions to her, his lust becomes for THAT woman, but before that he is still experiencing lust. In the same way a person can walk around angry before finding someone to yell at.
Another interesting idea is biological, in that the shape of human male genitalia indicates that evolutionarily the human male might have expected to have at least some competition with the sperm of another male, therefore women are not (naturally, at any rate) the chaste and pure creatures our culture would have them be. Citing Hume, Blackburn states "In many and various ways, girls are educated into sexual reserve. Consider that many of the most wounding things young girls call each other imply sexual laxity: slag, bitch, whore, tart. . . . None of this would be necessary if evolution had designed the psychology for us, any more than we need to put cultural pressure on each other to grow hair or see colors. When nature has done it for us, moralists can go home."
A third idea that has less to do specifically with lust is one of Satre's: "In a nutshell, for Sartre, consciousness has a big problem with the gaze of the other, the moment when your own subjectivity is itself being subjected to the scrutiny of a different consciousness. In one of his central examples, you are crouched at a keyhole concentrating upon the scene within, when you become aware that you yourself are being gazed at. This engenders embarassment and shame. To overcome this shame you have to overcome the gaze of the other.""
"The last of the deadly sins... Lust was a decent read (love the cover illustrations!) Very Western lit. meets intro to philosophy. Caveat emptor: you will probably not ACTUALLY be sexually aroused while reading this book, unless you're particularly titillated by Hegel or Grecian nudes."
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