Monogamy - Hardcover

Phillips, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679442642 ISBN 13: 9780679442646

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 1997

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Book by Phillips Adam

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A thought-provoking meditation on the concept of monogamy explores from a wide range of perpectives the essential nature of the subject, discussing such topics as marriage, what brings couples together and keeps them together, pleasure, and more. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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ce to this highly charged volume, psychologist Adam Phillips suggests that today's raging controversies over the nature of marriage and the soaring divorce rate are actually discussions about monogamy: What brings people together?  Why should they, in fact, stay together?  "What are couples for," he asks, "if they are not for pleasure?  And if pleasure doesn't matter, then what does?"

Phillips gives us 120 deliberately arguable aphorisms ("Every marriage is a blind date that makes you wonder what the alternatives are to a blind date." or "As yet, the promiscuous cannot grow old gracefully. But this may say more about our ideas of dignity, than of aging.") that discuss the concept of monogamy from every angle, discovering what it is and what it isn't, uncovering in it "a kind of moral nexus, a keyhole through which we can spy on our preoccupations."

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679442642
• ISBN 13: 9780679442646
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 121