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Philosophy, 1981
In a famous passage in her book, Intention, Professor G. E. M. Anscombe argues that we can only render intelligible the idea of someone wanting a thing if we know under what aspect the person sees the thing as desirable. The wanted thing must be characterized by the wanter as desirable in some respect. ‘[What] is required for our concept of “wanting”’,
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In a famous passage in her book, Intention, Professor G. E. M. Anscombe argues that we can only render intelligible the idea of someone wanting a thing if we know under what aspect the person sees the thing as desirable. The wanted thing must be characterized by the wanter as desirable in some respect. ‘[What] is required for our concept of “wanting”’,
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Sociology, 2002
This paper will consider three major conceptions of desire and how they relate to the human condition. For many desire is conceived either as lack, a ‘desire-for’, or as some affirmative force that enables us to ‘reach beyond ourselves’.This is desire reduced to a dualism in order to negate one pole in favour of the other.
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This paper will consider three major conceptions of desire and how they relate to the human condition. For many desire is conceived either as lack, a ‘desire-for’, or as some affirmative force that enables us to ‘reach beyond ourselves’.This is desire reduced to a dualism in order to negate one pole in favour of the other.
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Desires, beliefs and conditional desirability
Synthese, 2014Does the desirability of a proposition depend on whether it is true? Not according to the Invariance assumption, held by several notable philosophers. The Invariance assumption plays an important role in David Lewis’ famous arguments against the so-called Desire-as-Belief thesis (DAB), an anti-Humean thesis according to which a rational agent desires a
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Desires and Desirability of Volunteers in CoSA Programs
Sexual Abuse, 2020Circles of Support and Accountability (CoSA) are comprised of approximately five trained Circle volunteers who provide support during reentry to one core member previously convicted of a sexual offense. In 2008, the Minnesota Department of Corrections implemented the Minnesota Circles of Support and Accountability (MnCoSA).
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1993
AbstractArgues against appeals to second‐order desires in order to explain freedom of the will, valuing, or values. Further points are that positive intentions are reflexive or self‐referential, that intrinsic desires are not just non‐instrumental desires, that to value something is in part to want it, that there is sometimes a difference between ...
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AbstractArgues against appeals to second‐order desires in order to explain freedom of the will, valuing, or values. Further points are that positive intentions are reflexive or self‐referential, that intrinsic desires are not just non‐instrumental desires, that to value something is in part to want it, that there is sometimes a difference between ...
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2017
In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire. Through recollections of his struggles with depression, his discovery of love and literature and his adventures cruising in the gay subcultures of late twentieth-century New York,
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In this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire. Through recollections of his struggles with depression, his discovery of love and literature and his adventures cruising in the gay subcultures of late twentieth-century New York,
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Desiring desire in Visconti’s Ossessione
Journal of Romance Studies, 2012A considerable amount of critical literature on Luchino Visconti’s film Ossessione [Obsession] questions whether there is a “gay” storyline that subtends its narrative. This paper shifts the emphasis to the film’s representation of desire, which, it argues, is structured not through the pursuit of an object but a desire for desire itself.
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2015
Like Zizek's theories, fantasy is derived from the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Lacan. The principal point for Lacan is that fantasy is setting for desire where fantasy provides the matrix through which subjects begin to desire. The object that consumes desire and therefore occupies the fantasy of subject must fall prey to the illusion that it is ...
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Like Zizek's theories, fantasy is derived from the psychoanalytic work of Freud and Lacan. The principal point for Lacan is that fantasy is setting for desire where fantasy provides the matrix through which subjects begin to desire. The object that consumes desire and therefore occupies the fantasy of subject must fall prey to the illusion that it is ...
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Examination of Desire and the Desirous
1995Abstract If prior to desire And without desire there were a desirous one, Desire would depend on him. Desire would exist when there is a desirous one. Were there no desirous one, moreover, Where would desire occur? Whether or not desire or the desirous one exist, The analysis would be the same.
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Desiring Machines: Machines That Are Desired and Machines That Desire
Contagion: Journal of Violence Mimesis and Culture, 2021openaire +1 more source