The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution by James A. Steintrager

The Autonomy of Pleasure: Libertines, License, and Sexual Revolution

James A. Steintrager

408 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

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What would happen if pleasure were made the organizing principle for social relations and sexual pleasure ruled over all? Radical French libertines experimented clandestinely with this idea during the Enlightenment. In explicit novels, dialogues, ...

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