
Philosophy of Viagra : Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World.
Title:
Philosophy of Viagra : Bioethical Responses to the Viagrification of the Modern World.
Author:
Botz-Bornstein, Thorsten.
ISBN:
9789401200363
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (229 pages)
Series:
VIBS ; v.230
VIBS
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Viagra, Lifestyle, and the Philosophical Perspective -- ONE Eros, Viagra, and the Good Life: Reflections on Cephalus and Platonic Moderation -- TWO Diogenes of Sinope Gets Hard on Viagra -- THREE A Question of Virtuous Sex: Would Aristotle Take Viagra? -- FOUR Man's Fallen State: St. Augustine on Viagra -- FIVE Viagra and the Utopia of Immortality -- SIX Enhancing Desire Philosophically: Feminism, Viagra, and the Biopolitics of the Future -- SEVEN Red Pill or Blue Pill? Viagra and the Virtual -- EIGHT Virility, Viagra, and Virtue: Re-Reading Humane Vitae in an African Light -- NINE Erecting New Goals for Medicine: Viagra and Medicalization -- TEN Desire and its Mysteries: Erectile Stimulators Between Thighs and Selves -- ELEVEN America and Viagra or How the White Negro Became a Little Whiter: Viagra as an Afro-Disiac -- TWELVE David Hume Meets Viagra: The Misuse of the Science of Erectile Dysfunction -- THIRTEEN A Short Note on Viagra and Thanatos -- FOURTEEN Comparative Melioration and Pathological Pathogenization in Viagra Marketing -- FIFTEEN Erectus Interruptus: All Erections Are Not Equal -- WORKS CITED -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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