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The Pursuit of Pleasure (Hardcover)
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The Pursuit of Pleasure (Hardcover)
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Pleasure is biologically desirable and good for physical and mental
health. In The Pursuit of Pleasure, Lionel Tiger explores this
aspect of human nature by focusing on the origins and forms of
pleasure. Medical science has perfected a host of often
astonishingly impressive methods for preventing, alleviating, or
recovering from pain. Its opposite, pleasure, has not had such a
well-funded and fully justified constituency. In fact, those
committed to the understanding and pursuit of pleasure, are rarely
accorded respect and a sense of significance. People have objected
to the notion of pleasure for a variety of reasons. The most
complex derive from religious convictions that the most morally
admirable human life is marked by abstemiousness, suffering, even
martyrdom. There is also a corresponding fear that people may
pursue pleasure too avidly and with too strong a sense of
entitlement, and the world's work will not get done. But just as
there have been suspicions of the dangers of pleasure, there have
also been its supporters who assert its vital and joyful centrality
to human experience. The Pursuit of Pleasure favors an agnostic
approach borrowed from natural science. In lively, witty, and
eminently readable prose, Tiger identifies major forms of pleasure
and explores their variations, now and in the past. Pleasure, says
Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that
deserves to be taken seriously. As we acknowledge our need for
enjoyment, we understand the need to establish balance in our
lives-our need for the pursuit of pleasure.
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