The Science of Pleasure

Cosmos and Psyche in the Bourgeois World

Harvie Ferguson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

1990
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-04458-5 (ISBN)

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We live, we are told, in bourgeois societies. But what is the bourgeois worldview? In this book, the author argues that science - the attempt to describe the order of things 'objectively' and 'dispassionately' - is the highest expression of bourgeois thought.

Harvie Ferguson

Part One: Fun 1. The Dread of Chaos 2. The Fearful Cosmographer 3. The Romance of Signs The Cosmic Body Part Two 4. Hierarchy 5. Release 6. Nature The Mirror of God Part Three: Pleasure 7. Harmony 8. Mechanism 9. Egoism The System of the World Part Four: Excitement 10. Towards a Critique of Bourgeois Psychology 11. Nature's Strangeness 12. The Charm of Decadence The Symmetry of Creation Conclusion: Intimate cosmology

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.2.1990
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	498 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-415-04458-8 / 0415044588
ISBN-13	978-0-415-04458-5 / 9780415044585
Zustand	Neuware