{"product_id":"erotika-biblion","title":"Erotika Biblion","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat happens when a scholar’s learning meets the desires that laws cannot erase?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Erotika Biblion, Comte de Mirabeau brings sex, desire and custom into the scholar’s study. His essays gather myths, stories and practices from the ancient world and later ages. Greece and Rome supply much of his evidence, with poets, historians and physicians called as witnesses to the body and its appetites.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished in France in 1783, the book speaks with a frankness that shocks its time. Mirabeau writes much of it while imprisoned at Vincennes, with few books and restless energy. Beneath the scholarship lies a persistent idea: desire is ordinary, powerful and as old as humanity. Officials condemn the work as an offence against morals and hunt down copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat you'll discover\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA scholar’s disguise\u003c\/strong\u003e – Explore essays that use the forms of learning to approach a forbidden subject.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe ancient world as witness\u003c\/strong\u003e – Encounter customs and stories drawn from Greece, Rome and the wider ancient world.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDesire against restraint\u003c\/strong\u003e – Consider Mirabeau’s view of human appetites as forces that laws cannot simply erase.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWriting within prison walls\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet the restless mind of a future revolutionary writing during confinement at Vincennes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFrankness that invites suppression\u003c\/strong\u003e – Discover the explicit treatment of pleasure that brings the book into conflict with authorities.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers curious about the Enlightenment’s darker corners, the history of sexuality and a revolutionary’s early life, who welcome explicit subjects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page and explore the uneasy meeting of scholarship, pleasure and power.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534558593372,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/00241_en_ebook-front_c09.jpg?v=1792174885","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/nb\/products\/erotika-biblion","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}