Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception
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"Following Glassen (1958), Feinberg (1985, 107–112) holds that the obscene is a “charientic” category (deriving from the Greek 'charis', meaning something like grace), a category he believes should be distinguished both from the moral and the aesthetic. On this view, charientic judgments concern neither the morally good and bad, nor the beautiful and ugly. Rather, they concern the seemly and the unseemly. Charientic judgments are properly applied to humans and their behaviors, and fundamentally concern crudity or refinement of taste. Obscenity, says Feinberg (1985, " --Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception (2016) by Charles Nussbaum "There are also on hand dissenting, anti-Gricean approaches (Davis 1998; Wierzbicka 2003)." --ibid |
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Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception (2016) is a book on pornographic fiction by Charles Nussbaum.
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