The Sleep of Reason - Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome (Hardcover, New)

Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of their views on erotic experience and sexual ethics.
"The Sleep of Reason" brings together an international group of philosophers, philologists, literary critics, and historians to consider two questions normally kept separate: how is erotic experience understood in classical texts of various kinds, and what ethical judgments and philosophical arguments are made about sex? From same-sex desire to conjugal love, and from Plato and Aristotle to the Roman Stoic Musonius Rufus, the contributors demonstrate the complexity and diversity of classical sexuality. They also show that the ethics of eros, in both Greece and Rome, shared a number of commonalities: a focus not only on self-mastery, but also on reciprocity; a concern among men not just for penetration and display of their power, but also for being gentle and kind, and for being loved for themselves; and that women and even younger men felt not only gratitude and acceptance, but also joy and sexual desire.
Contributors:
* Eva Cantarella
* Kenneth Dover
* Chris Faraone
* Simon Goldhill
* Stephen Halliwell
* David M. Halperin
* J. Samuel Houser
* Maarit Kaimio
* David Konstan
* David Leitao
* Martha C. Nussbaum
* A. W. Price
* Juha Sihvola

General

Imprint:	University of Chicago Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2002
First published:	July 2002
Editors:	Martha C. Nussbaum • Juha Sihvola
Dimensions:	234 x 167 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	464
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-226-60914-0
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Sex & sexuality Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	0-226-60914-6
Barcode:	9780226609140

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