The Sleep of Reason
Subtitle: Erotic Experience and Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome
Contributors: Martha C. Nussbaum (Editor); Juha Sihvola (Editor)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: July 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9780226609140
Subjects: Gender studies; History of ideas, intellectual history; Sex & sexuality; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; Psychology; History - General History; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Ancient - Greece; Ancient - Rome; Human Sexuality; Psychology & Psychiatry / Human Sexuality; Congresses; Greece; History; Rome; Sex customs; Sexual ethics
First sentence: Sex eludes rational control, and yet, for that very reason, it is constantly reasoned about.