The Sleep of Reason

Autorentext
Martha C. Nussbaum is Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. She is the author of numerous works, including Women and Human Development, Cultivating Humanity, and Upheavals of Thought, Juha Sihvola is professor of history at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland. He is the author of Decay, Progress, and the Good Life?, and Hesiod and Protagoras on the Development of Culture, and the editor of Ancient Scepticism and the Scepticist Tradition.

Zusammenfassung
Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of Ancient Greece and Rome.This work considers how erotic experience is understood in classical texts, and what ethical and philosophical arguments are made about sex?