by Robert C. Solomon · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. · tapa dura · ISBN 9780847692507
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«Wicked Pleasures» is a collective essay on the seven deadly sins, edited by Robert C. Solomon (Rowman & Littlefield, hardcover, 176 pages).
The book brings together essays that approach the seven deadly sins from philosophy and ethics, with a non-moralizing tone. Solomon traces the history of this catalogue of vices, and several contributors, including Thomas Pynchon, reflect on each sin, its cultural roots, and its relevance in contemporary society.
First edition. Text in English.
Recommended for readers of philosophy and cultural essays, with an interest in ethics and the history of ideas.
Robert Charles Solomon was a philosopher and business ethicist, notable author, and Distinguished Teaching Professor of Business and Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he held a named chair and taught for more than 30 years, authoring The Passions: Emotions and the Meaning of Life (1976) and more than 45 other books and editions. Critical of the narrow focus of Anglo-American analytic philosophy, which he thought denied human nature and abdicated the important questions of life, he instead wrote analytically in response to the continental discourses of phenomenology and existentialism, on sex and love, on business ethics, and on other topics to which he brought an Aristotelian perspective on virtue ethics. He also wrote A Short History of Philosophy and others with his wife, Kathleen Higgins.
