title: Lust: The Seven Deadly Sins
author:  Simon Blackburn 
description: "Whimsically packaged exminations of Lust by Simon Blackburn, Gluttony by Francine Prsoe, Envy by Joseph Epstein, Anger by Robert Thurman, Greed by Phyllis Tickle, Sloth by Wendy Wasserstein and Pride by Michael Eric Dyson become playgrounds for cultural reflection by authors and playwrights in Oxford's Seven Deadly Sins series."--Publishers Weekly (on the series)<br /><br />"A distinguished thinker offers an unabashed defense of everyone's favorite sin, part of Oxford's series on the seven deadlies.... [Blackburn] is a witty writer and a canny reader, particularly adept at pitting temporally disparate thinkers (e.g., Hume and Stephen Pinker) against each other."--Publishers Weekly<br /><br />"A deft, Lilliputian trussing-up of a sprawling, Brobdingnagian body of thought...written with lucidity by a man of reason both by profession and by temperament."--The New Yorker<br /><br />"A playful essay that delivers everything one might want--insight, historical perspective, critical bite--in books on the other six vices (pride, envy, anger, sloth, greed and gluttony)."--Carlin Romano, The Philadelphia Inquirer<br /><br />"An assuredly elegant essay, wrapped around a seductive compendium of poems and pictures, an ornament to Professor Blackburn's erudition."--Daily Telegraph<br /><br />"In his delightfully literate, cogent, and congenial contribution to the Seven Deadly Sins lecture and book series, philosopher Blackburn argues that, far from being a sin, lust is, 'not merely useful but essential."--Booklist<br /><br />"A thoughtfully burnished essay on a titillating topic."--Kirkus Reviews<br /><br />"Blackburn amuses us with his provocative defense of lust.... While religious conservatives could regard Blackburn's Lust as outrageous, it thoughtfully balances other books in the series. However, more than any other title so far, it is apt to be debated in many venues."--Library Journal<br /><br />"Less a study of the sin of lust than it is a sinfully amusing defense of it."--Washington Times<br /><br />"Blackburn's wry and learned new book, 'Lust,' is part of a seven-book series--one for each of the deadly sins--that grew from a lecture series co-sponsored by the New York Library and Oxford University Press. In this slim volume the author seeks to redeem lust from its 'bad press' and ultimately enhance its standing with a public fed centuries of propaganda and outright disinformation. Neither prude nor dirty old man, he skillfully filters art, verse and prose through the prism of lust and romantic love and does so in a tone of well-read whimsy."--San Francisco Chronicle
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  CONTENTS
  Dear Readers
  Prologue
  1. Eric
  2. Aracely
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  5. Eric
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  7. Eric
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  9. Eric
  10. Eric
  11. Aracely
  12. Eric
  13. Aracely
  Epilogue
  A Look At The Widow
  About the Author
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