The Pursuit of Pleasure

by Lionel Tiger

Book Overview

The author identifies some major forms of pleasure - sex, food, drugs, pets, plants, power and more - and explores their variations now and in the past. Pleasure, says Tiger, is not a luxury but an evolutionary entitlement that deserves to be taken seriously. He tackles a variety of complex and larger issues, such as the historic link between religion, public policy and the control of pleasure and the fact that some pleasures reflect our hunter-gatherer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316845434
• ISBN13: 9780316845434
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.5"