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Approaches to the Intellectual of History of Sexuality

Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters By Paul Robinson. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2002, 332 pp., $50.00 (cloth); $18.00. (paper) Queer Wars: The New Gay Right and Its Critics By Paul Robinson. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 2005, 170 pp., $25.00.

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Notes

  1. The adjective “conservative” is in quotes because it is not confined to politics in Robinson’s usage.

  2. The intellectual historian Morse Peckham’s (1971) translation of “geist” was culture.

  3. Robinson’s externalist argument about music seems to me to run afoul of the difficulty of assigning verbal meanings to musical sounds as if this were only a problem in translation between two languages. See the counterargument in Steiner (1989, pp. 19–20).

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  • Peckham, M. (1971). Art and pornography: An experiment in explanation. New York: Harper & Row.

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  • Steiner, G. (1989). Real presences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

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Gagnon, J.H. Approaches to the Intellectual of History of Sexuality. Arch Sex Behav 36, 111–112 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-006-9118-3

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