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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: Immanuel Kant, Voltaire, Michel Foucault, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, Libido, Julia Kristeva, Lust, Judith Butler, Roland Barthes, Helene Cixous, Wilhelm Reich, Bracha L. Ettinger, Marquis de Sade, George Santayana, Georges Bataille, Suzanne Lilar, Desire, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Charles Fourier, Sex-positive movement, Gloria E. Anzaldua, Sexual ethics, Ecriture feminine, Sarah Kofman, Philosophy of sex, Luce Irigaray, Mirror stage, The Imaginary, Michael Uebel, Monique Wittig, Griselda Pollock, Name of the Father, Guy Hocquenghem, The Symbolic, Love Is..., The Guru, Objet petit a, Jonathan David Katz, The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, Alan Soble, Schizoanalysis, John D'Emilio, Otto Gross, Lack, The Ethical Slut, Elisabeth Badinter, Sinthome, Jouissance, Robert Reid-Pharr, Jacques Hassoun, Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love. Excerpt: Immanuel Kant (German pronunciation: 22 April 1724 - 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher from Konigsberg (today Kaliningrad of Russia), researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment. At the time, there were major successes and advances in the sciences (for example, Isaac Newton, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and Robert Boyle) using reason and logic. But this stood in sharp contrast to the scepticism and lack of agreement or progress in empiricist philosophy. Kant's magnum opus, the Critique of Pure Reason, aimed to unite reason with experience to move beyond what he took to be failures of traditional philosophy and metaphysics. He hoped to end an age of speculation where objects outside experience were used to support what he saw as futile theories, while opposing the scepticism and idealism of thinkers such as Descartes, Berkeley and Hume. He said that 'it always remains a scandal of philosophy and universal ...
