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The science of pleasure : cosmos and psyche in the bourgeois world view / Harvie Ferguson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, Harvie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Western.
- Cosmology--History.
- Cosmology.
- Pleasure--History.
- Pleasure.
- Psychology--History.
- Psychology.
- Science--History.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this rich and original work, the author argues that science is the highest expression of bourgeois thought and whilst it may have liberated mankind, it has also devised new forms of repression, discipline and control.
- Contents:
- BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Part One FUN; Part Two HAPPINESS; Part Three PLEASURE; Part Four EXCITEMENT
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-138-46819-3
- 1-134-94987-1
- 1-280-13936-6
- 9786610139361
- 0-203-99294-6
- 9780203992944
- OCLC:
- 475954194
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