Pleasure beyond the pleasure principle
In: The role of affect in motivation, development, and adaptation 1
In: The role of affect in motivation, development, and adaptation 1
In: Routledge Research in Education
Pleasure and desire have been important components of the vision for sexuality education for over 20 years. This book argues that there has been a lack of scrutiny over the political motivations that underpin research supportive of pleasure and desire within comprehensive sexuality education. In this volume, key researchers in the field consider how discourses related to pleasure and desire have been taken up internationally. They argue that sexuality education is clearly shaped by specific cultural and political contexts, and examine how these contexts have shaped the development of pleasu.
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Prologue to the Transaction Edition -- 1 Where Is the State of Pleasuria? -- 2 Let's Spend a Quiet Evening in the Cave -- 3 Guess Why? -- 4 Spasmo Numero Uno, Con Due -- 5 BigMouth -- 6 The Senses: Everyone Has a Native Guide -- 7 The Power of Pleasure / The Pleasure of Power -- Conclusion: "Elephant? Elephant? What Elephant?" -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
In: Kommunikation über Grenzen und Kulturen, S. 411-428
In: Routledge Advances in Criminology
Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment.
In: Nka: journal of contemporary African art, Band 2020, Heft 46, S. 152-166
ISSN: 2152-7792
Cultural products and discourses about erotic pleasure have recently proliferated, leading to what the author calls "the pleasure turn." In studies of African culture, "the pleasure turn" can be read as decentering the dominant paradigm that has mostly associated black nakedness with negative emotions: sorrow, pain, and humiliation. Illustrative of the turn is the 2009 exhibition Beauty and Pleasure in South African Contemporary Art, which considered pain and suffering as overrated and sought to provide a more accurate picture of life on the continent as a mix of pleasure and pain. This article closely reads the South African multimedia artist Dineo Bopape's 2008 Silent Performance, alongside Berni Searle's 2001 politically charged Snow White, to point out their generative potential for the intersection of the visual media, erotic pleasure, and nudity. Traditional views of pleasure have avoided the nexus of erotic pleasure and the visual because of their historical association with nineteenth-century scientific racism. The author argues Bopape's and Searle's images exceed a single and stable interpretation. By inserting their (semi-)naked bodies as central images, they invite yet resist unwanted readings of erotic pleasure in their works. Incorporating her analysis of these works into her conceptualization of images of black female nudity in art, the author proposes that a robust attention be given the visual image in the rising conversation on pleasure in African studies.
"Based on a reading of contemporary philosophical arguments, this book accounts for how punishment has provided audiences with pleasure in different historical contexts. Watching tragedies, contemplating hell, attending executions, or imagining prisons have generated pleasure, according to contemporary observers, in ancient Greece, in medieval Catholic Europe, in the early-modern absolutist states, and in the post-1968 Western world. The pleasure was often judged morally problematic, and raised questions about which desires were satisfied, and what the enjoyment was like. This book offers a research synthesis that ties together existing work on the pleasure of punishment. It considers how the shared joys of punishment gradually disappeared from the public view at a precise historic conjuncture, and explores whether arguments about the carnivalesque character of cruelty can provide support for the continued existence of penal pleasure. Towards the end of this book, the reader will discover, if willing to go along and follow desire to places which are full of pain and suffering, that deeply entwined with the desire for punishment, there is also the desire for social justice. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, sociology, philosophy and all those interested in the pleasures of punishment"--
In: Routledge research in education 108
In: Andrew Gilden & Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec, Pleasure Patents, 63 B.C. L. Rev. 571 (2022)
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Introduction: The three central impasses in understanding Aristotle's ethics -- I. Pleasure, Desire and Good in the Physical Writings -- 1. The natural unity of all pleasures and desires -- 2. The natural unity of pleasures and desires and the human good -- 3. The natural good underlying all thinking and perceiving -- 4. Thinking, perceiving and embodiment -- 5. The universality of the cosmological good -- 6. The unity of the human and cosmological good -- II. Pleasure, Desire and the Good in the Ethical Writings -- 7. Deliberate desire: knowledge, choice and the inculcation of virtue -- 8. Intellectual virtue and the unity of thinking and desire -- 9. The limit case: akrasia and the apparent conflict of thinking and desire -- 10. Plurality of pleasures and unity of the good: how can they go together? -- 11. Pleasure as good, the good or no good: surveying extant positions -- 12. The wholeness of pleasure and -- as the good -- -- Conclusion: The wholeness of pleasure and solving the impasses