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In Defence of Sensuality (Paperback, Main)
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In Defence of Sensuality (Paperback, Main)
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In Defence of Sensuality was first published in 1930. The author's
own foreword to the book is worth quoting in full: 'The author
feels that perhaps some explanation is due tot eh reader for the
rather unusual employment of the ''Sensuality'' which serves as the
title of this work. The advantage given to the author by the use of
this particular expression is that it enables him to proceed from
rock-bottom upwards as far as he likes. A more refined title would
have cut him off, in his method of developing his idea, from the
physical roots of existence; for while it is easy to indicate the
overtones and undertones of Sensuality it would be hard to bring a
gentle, vague word, like the word ''sensuousness'' down to the
bare, stark, stoically-stripped Life-Sensation which is the subject
of this book. How far has the individual the right to be what is
called ''selfish''? How far has he the right to concentrate on his
own solitary awareness of existence and make this alone his
life-purpose? Is there such a thing at all as a Religion of Nature
or a Cosmic Ethic? Such are the questions the author attempts to
answer; and he finds that in his discussion of the root-sensations
of life the word Sensuality, taken in an unusually comprehensive
sense, serves his purpose better than any other word.' In Defence
of Sensuality is one of the self-help books John Cowper Powys wrote
that owe their genesis to the free-lance lecturing he did in
America. In addition to this one, Faber Finds are reissuing The
Meaning of Culture, A Philosophy of Solitude and The Art of
Happiness.
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