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227 S. Originalbroschur.

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Gebraucht, aber sehr gut erhalten. Nahezu ohne Gebrauchsspuren. - Inhalt: Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Introduction: Viagra, Lifestyle, and the Philosophical Perspective -- Sophie Bourgault: Eros, Viagra, and the Good Life: Reflections on Cephalus and Platonic Moderation -- Robert Vuckovich: Diogenes of Sinope Gets Hard on Viagra -- Thomas Kapper: A Question of Virtuous Sex: Would Aristotle Take Viagra? -- Kevin Guilfoy: Man's Fallen State: St. Augustine on Viagra -- Robert Redeker: Viagra and the Utopia of Immortality -- Connie C. Price: Enhancing Desire Philosophically: Feminism, Viagra, and the Biopolitics of the Future -- Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: Red Pill or Blue Pill? Viagra and the Virtual -- Anthony Okeregbe: Virility, Viagra, and Virtue: Re-Reading Humane Vitae in an African Light -- Dónal O'Mathúna: Erecting New Goals for Medicine: Viagra and Medicalization -- Claude-Raphaël Samama: Desire and its Mysteries: Erectile Stimulators Between Thighs and Selves -- Thorsten Botz-Bornstein: America and Viagra or How the White Negro Became a Little Whiter: Viagra as an Afro-Disiac -- Herbert Roseman: David Hume Meets Viagra: The Misuse of the Science of Erectile Dysfunction -- Herbert Roseman: A Short Note on Viagra and Thanatos -- Roman Meinhold: Comparative Melioration and Pathological Pathogenization in Viagra Marketing -- Bassam Romaya: Erectus Interruptus: All Erections Are Not Equal. - The impotency remedy Viagra is the fastest selling drug in history. It has grown beyond being simply a medical phenomenon, but has achieved the status of cultural icon, appearing on television as a pretext for jokes or even as a murder weapon. Viagra has socio-cultural implications that are not limited to sexuality. The Philosophy of Viagra offers a unique perspective as it examines the phenomenon of Viagra through ideas derived from more than two thousand years of philosophical reasoning. In philosophy, Eros has always had a central position. Since Plato, philosophy has held that desire is not only a medical but also a spiritual phenomenon and that scientific explanations claiming to give an exhaustive account of erotic perception are misleading. Philosophical ideas are able to debunk various scientific rationalizations of sexuality - one of which is the clinical-sexological discourse on Viagra. In this volume, several authors interpret Viagra through the lens of classical philosophy explicating the themes of immortality and hedonism. Others offer psychoanalytical considerations by confronting clinical sexology with psychological realities. Still others evoke intercultural aspects revealing the relative character of potency that the phenomenon of Viagra attempts to gloss over. (Verlagstext). ISBN 9789042033368