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Many people believe that pleasure and desire are obstacles to reasonable and intelligent behavior. This book reveals that what we desire, what pleases us, in fact, our most base, animalistic tendencies, are actually very important sources of information.

Pleasure. --- Desire. --- Appetency --- Craving --- Longing --- Yearning --- Emotions --- Ethics --- Senses and sensation --- Utilitarianism --- Happiness --- Hedonism

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One thing all mainstream economists agree upon is that money has nothing whatsoever to do with desire. This strange blindness of the profession to what is otherwise considered to be a basic feature of economic life serves as the starting point for this provocative new theory of money. Through the works of Karl Marx, Thorstein Veblen, and Max Weber, What Money Wants argues that money is first and foremost an object of desire. In contrast to the common notion that money is but an ordinary object that people believe to be money, this book explores the theoretical consequences of the p

Consumption (Economics) -- Juvenile literature. --- Income -- Juvenile literature. --- Wages -- Juvenile literature. --- Wages. --- Money --- Desire --- Economics --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Philosophy --- Economic aspects --- Philosophy. --- Economic aspects. --- Appetency --- Longing --- Emotions --- E-books --- Craving --- Yearning

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WILD THINGS is queer theorist Jack Halberstam's account of sexuality in general, and queerness in particular, after nature. As the heterosexual/homosexual binary emerged in the late 19th-century and coalesced in the 20th-century, discourses of both heterosexuality and homosexuality defined sexuality in relation to nature and the natural world. The most well-known is the homophobic framing of homosexuality as unnatural, aberrant, and "against" nature, but of equal importance is the 19th-century male dandy's positioning of artifice and camp-and through it homosexuality-as anti-natural. On the other hand, heterosexuality was often held up as the "natural" sexuality and, later in the 20th-century, gay scientists tried to prove that homosexuality was a natural, biological desire. In this book, Halberstam mobilizes wildness as an analytic through which an alternative history of sexuality and desire outside of heterosexuality, homosexuality, and taxonomical classifications can emerge. To that end, Halberstam turns back to the orderly, taxonomical, and classified homosexuality and heterosexuality of the 19th and 20th-centuries and asks: what embodiments and desires were swept under the carpet in the process of creating identitarian sexualities? Halberstam claims these excluded and unruly figures as "wild" lives lived out in embodiments and desires which eluded the orderly classifications of their era. Wildness, for Halberstam, thus becomes a way to claim an "epistemology of the ferox," a way of being and knowing in the world which is not the opposition of order but order's absence: a force which "disorders desire and desires disorder." Although he is clear that wildness and queerness are not interchangeable, Halberstam sees in wildness and "wild thought" queer theory's anti-identitarian impulse to explore life outside of the limits of the human and liberal governance. More than just a project of recuperating queer figures lost in the archive, Halberstam's WILD THINGS argues for a revision of queer history, one in which "nature" and the "natural world" does not function as that which sexuality defines itself with and against.

Queer theory --- Gender identity --- Sex --- Heterosexuality --- Homosexuality --- Desire --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Appetency --- Craving --- Longing --- Yearning --- Emotions --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Queer theory. --- Gender identity. --- Sex. --- Heterosexuality. --- Homosexuality. --- Desire. --- Gender dysphoria

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Designed for students, academics and the general reader alike, Sexual Politics of Desire and Belonging provides theoretical and empirical insights into the linkages between sexualities and forms of desire, and ways of belonging and relating to others in specific contexts and moments in time. Opening with a substantial introduction by one of the editors, this collection of thirteen essays is organised into three parts, each section making important contributions to contemporary debates regarding the sexual politics of citizenship, marriage, friendship, pornography, intimacies, eroticism and desire. As such, the essays introduce fresh perspectives for thinking about how individuals construct senses of belonging and modes of relating to others in their everyday lives, within the disciplinary frameworks of sociology, organisational analysis and cultural studies. As well, the volume analyses representations of desire and eroticism in British Pop Art, trauma and feminist fiction, polyamory self-help literature, Hollywood films, and sociological and psychoanalytic theory. Analytical insights offered within these essays will do much to stimulate debate about aspects of the socially and historically constituted relationship between desire and sexuality. Because of the diverse approaches and conclusions it contains, the volume will be essential reading for anyone interested in engaging with inter- and multidisciplinary perspectives in order to understand the dynamics between constructions of desire and belonging, and discourses of gender, sex and sexuality.

Sex --- Desire --- Sex in art --- Sex in popular culture --- Sexuality in popular culture --- Popular culture --- Sex in the arts --- Sexuality in art --- Appetency --- Craving --- Longing --- Yearning --- Emotions --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Political aspects

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"This book is a deliberate departure from the prevailing trend. It deals with leaders not as figments of our imaginations, as incarnations of our idealizations, but as they are in the real world. Specifically, this book is an examination and evaluation of leaders driven beyond apparent reason, and who therefore, in some cases for better and in others for worse, stand out"--

Leadership --- Desire --- Lust --- Carnal desire --- Concupiscence --- Lasciviousness --- Lechery --- Licentiousness --- Sexual lust --- Sexual excitement --- Appetency --- Craving --- Longing --- Yearning --- Emotions --- Ability --- Command of troops --- Followership --- Psychological aspects --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Leadership - Psychological aspects - Case studies. --- Leadership - Moral and ethical aspects - Case studies. --- Desire - Case studies. --- Lust - Case studies.