Sex from Plato to Paglia: A-L

Alan Soble

Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006 - Sex - 1176 pages

Sexuality has captured the imagination of thinkers since antiquity. It has inspired numerous creative works and posed myriad ethical, legal, and social challenges. Unlike other references, which discuss the medical aspects of sexuality, this encyclopedia explores sexuality as the subject of philosophy. Through more than 150 alphabetically arranged entries on thinkers, topics, movements, religions, and concepts, the encyclopedia locates sexuality in its humanistic and social contexts.

Sexuality has captured the imagination of countless poets, artists, and theorists since antiquity. It has inspired numerous creative works and posed myriad ethical, legal, and social challenges. Because it is so central to society, various thinkers have pondered its philosophical dimensions. The first of its kind, this reference offers comprehensive coverage of the philosophy of sex.

The entries are written by more than 100 expert contributors and cite current scholarship.

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Editor Soble (philosophy, Univ. of New Orleans;Pornography, Sex, and Feminism ) is one of the founding scholars of the relatively new field of the philosophy of sex and remains one its prominent ...

Contents

• Descartes Rene 15961650: 219
• Diseases Sexually Transmitted: 235
• Dysfunction Sexual: 248
• Ellis Havelock 18591939: 261
• Ethics Virtue: 279
• Existentialism: 292
• Feminism French: 308
• Feminism Lesbian: 324
• Feminism Mens: 342
• Flirting: 357
• Freud Sigmund 18561939: 370
• Friendship: 390
• Greek Sexuality and Philosophy Ancient: 410
• HegelG W F 1770l83l: 429
• Heterosexism: 442
• Homosexuality Ethics of: 460
• Hume David 171 11776: 476
• Indian Erotology: 493
• Jainism: 510
• Judaism Twentieth and TwentyFirstCentury: 533

About the author

Alan Soble is University Research Professor and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans. His articles have appeared in such journals as The Monist, Journal of the History of Sexuality, and Essays in Philosophy. His many books include Pornography, Sex, and Feminism (2002), The Philosophy of Sex and Love (1998), and The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings (4th ed., 2002).

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sex from Plato to Paglia: A-L; Volume 1 of Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, Alan Soble, ISBN 031332686X, 9780313326868
• Editor: Alan Soble
• Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006
• ISBN: 0313334242, 9780313334245
• Length: 1176 pages