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The autonomy of pleasure :

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The autonomy of pleasure :

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libertines, license, and sexual revolution /

James A. Steintrager.

New York :

Columbia University Press,

[2016]

©2016

1 online resource (xi, 394 pages) :

illustrations.

Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: whose sexual revolution? -- A thousand modes of venery : coital positions as actions and communications -- Voluptuary architecture : organizing, policing, and producing pleasure -- Sodomy and reason : making sense of the libertine preference -- "The obscene organ of brute pleasure" : social functions of the clitoris -- The fury of her kindness : what should a libertine know about orgasm? -- Color and caprice: the politics and aesthetics of interracial relations -- Canonizing Sade : eros, democracy, and differentiation -- Notes -- Index.

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What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented with this idea during the Enlightment. They wrenched pleasure free from religion and morality, from politics, aesthetics, anatomy, and finally reason itself, and imagined how such a world would be desirable, legitimate, rapturous -- and potentially horrific. This book ties the Englightenment engagement with sexual license to the expansion of print, empiricism, the revival of skepticism, and fashionable arts and lifestyles of the ancien régime, and the rise and decline of absolutims. It examines the consequences of imagining sexual pleasure as a sovereign power and a law unto itself across a range of topics.

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Autonomy of pleasure.

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Sex customs-- France-- History-- 18th century.

Moral conditions.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.

Sex customs.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.

France, Moral conditions.

France.

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