151. HEDONISM, INCEST AND THE PROBLEM OF DIFFERENCE.
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Colburn Jr., Kenneth
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HEDONISM , *PHILOSOPHY , *LITERATURE , *ETHICS , *DESIRE , *SOCIOLOGY - Abstract
This paper attempts to offer, through a reading of hedonism, an analytic conception of the difference which one author has referred to as the dialectic of speech and silence. In addressing the form of life of hedonism as one version of otherness and difference, the author seek not only to display an alternative conception of life and inquiry than that of hedonism, but also to show the authority or grounds of this papers possibility - even if such a showing inevitably and necessarily remains incomplete. The first section begins to make available authors understanding of hedonism as one theory of desire and difference through a presentation and consideration of two contemporary expressions of it. The Second section provides the theory, through a consideration of classical hedonism, for the practices encountered in the prior section.
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- 1975
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