The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
By: Anthony Giddens
3.67
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The sexual an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does “sexuality” come…
Want to Read $ 23.00"Sexuality is a terrain of fundamental political struggle and also a medium of emancipation, just as the sexual radicals claimed. A non-repressive society ... would be one in which sexuality is increasingly freed from compulsiveness. Emancipation thus presumes autonomy of action in the context of the generalisation of plastic sexuality. It is separate from permissiveness in so far as it creates an ethics of personal life which makes possible a conjunction of happiness, love, and respect for others."-Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
"Sexuality is a terrain of fundamental political struggle and also a medium of emancipation, just as the sexual radicals claimed. A non-repressive society ... would be one in which sexuality is increasingly freed from compulsiveness. Emancipation thus presumes autonomy of action in the context of the generalisation of plastic sexuality. It is separate from permissiveness in so far as it creates an ethics of personal life which makes possible a conjunction of happiness, love, and respect for others."-Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
"No one knows whether at the global level a framework of democratic institutions will develop, or whether alternatively world politics will slide into a destructiveness that might threaten the entire planet. Nobody knows if sexual relationships will become a wasteland of impermanent liaisons, marked by emotional antipathy as much as by love, and scarred by violence. There are good grounds for optimism in each case, but in a culture that has given up providentialism futures have to be worked for against a background of acknowledged risk."-Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
"No one knows whether at the global level a framework of democratic institutions will develop, or whether alternatively world politics will slide into a destructiveness that might threaten the entire planet. Nobody knows if sexual relationships will become a wasteland of impermanent liaisons, marked by emotional antipathy as much as by love, and scarred by violence. There are good grounds for optimism in each case, but in a culture that has given up providentialism futures have to be worked for against a background of acknowledged risk."-Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
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3.59
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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2. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
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By: Thomas Hobbes , Crawford Brough Macpherson
3.71
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
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By: Martin Heidegger
4.05
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
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4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
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4.43
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3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
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0.00
Format: None pages,
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4.24
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2.00
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4.15
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5.00
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3.28
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4.00
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4.30
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
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4.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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19. The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
By: Anthony Giddens
3.67
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
The sexual an evocative term, but what meaning can be given to it today? How does “sexuality” come… read more
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"Sexuality is a terrain of fundamental political struggle and also a medium of emancipation, just as the sexual radicals claimed. A non-repressive society ... would be one in which sexuality is increa…"-Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
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"Sexual emancipation, I think, can be the medium of a wide-ranging emotional reorganisation of social life. The concrete meaning of emancipation in this context is not, however, as the sexual radicals…"-Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies
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4.30
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4.06
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
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