The art of deduction ebook

Every bit as essential as The 48 Laws of Power , The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion that reveals one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate form of power. This book is priceless for life advice. Understanding how to interact with people, primarily, but also understanding what others might be up to, as well. My rating is low because it would appear that no one proofed this eBook before putting it on the iBook store. Sign in.

The Art of Seduction Unabridged. Description Creators Details Reviews The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion that reveals one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate form of power.

Languages English. The Art of Seduction is an indispensable primer of persuasion that reveals one of history's greatest weapons and the ultimate form of power. Why is availability limited? Sign in Cancel. Add a card. What he is showing us is something closer to a dance or a ritual think of the tango perhaps which obeys rules derived from a deeper level of shared or unconscious desires and fears and where, while the sexual element is central, it is the process that matters.

The book is also pleasurable for entirely different reasons. Greene is master of the historical anecdote. Every chapter has well chosen illustrative examples from literature and history. We are talking here about a flow of power and desire between equals.

There is no game if the other is not a free and equal participant. It is chess played by bodies in time and space. It is a very unromantic book by conventional and Anglo-Saxon standards but it is not reductionist about sex. The person who will be entranced by this book will be the natural seducer, one who takes simple pleasure in pleasure and treats life like a game.

I was not entranced, just interested and appreciative. Many of the tales derive from high-ranking courtly cultures where seduction and romance were bound by rules of conduct that were strict enough to suggest appropriate behavior but not so strict as to introduce bourgeois guilt or shame into the game of sexual conquest. Indeed, there is no room at all for shame or guilt, only for winning and losing … or perhaps for playing elegantly and still losing, more than winning too easily or in an ignoble way.

The attitude to sex is also counter-intuitive to Anglo-Saxon moderns. It is presented as a prize and not as some 'sacred' thing alienated from the bodies that couple. It is a fact on the ground. A pleasure. If the cynicism of his political analysis reminds us that people are stupid rather than eliciting admiration for the political seducers, when it comes to sex, there is no question of stupidity.

In every tale of sexual seduction, we are not dealing with coercion but with something like a willing suspension of disbelief where the seduced often gets precisely what they want, whatever the rest of us may think. He refers to the festival and to the theatre often, but also to seduction as the means by which our 'dark side', which is important to us to recognise in order to be whole persons, is allowed full play.

I would add that the transgressive aspects of seduction can allow individuation to both parties — it would often seem that seducers get trapped in the game, while the seduced move on into something different.

Greene more than once tells stories that suggest that a seduction becomes an integral memory that moulds the future mind for the better, removing someone from past habits that do not reflect who they are.

The Presidente de Tourvel is presented as being liberated from her boredom and obligations by the cynical seduction by Valmont. There is truth in this. He offers a sound corrective to moralists who, like repressed ideologues in politics, seem to leave more pain and suffering in their wake than do cynics and a-moralists.

In short, seduction emerges to be morally far more interesting than we thought. Quite often we see the ostensible predator out-classed by a skilful 'victim' so that roles are reversed If morality is good order as dictated by some Iron Age text, then seduction is to be consigned to the pits of hell.

But if it is the hand-maiden or servant of creative individuation, then it is conventional morality that might stand in the dock. Something will happen to you if you go out this deductipn.

Cheryl Bradley marked it as to-read Dec 15, He also conducted a survey to see what Holmes fans wanted and the result is the four parts that comprise his book. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website.

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