The art of seduction free download pdf

Video Audio icon An illustration of an audio speaker. Audio Software icon An illustration of a 3. Software Images icon An illustration of two photographs. Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! The season's most talked-about all-purpose personal strategy guide and philosophical compendium," said Newsweek of Robert Greene's bold, elegant, and ingenious manual of modern manipulation, The 48 Laws of Power.

Now Greene has once again mined history and literature to distill the essence of seduction, the most highly refined mode of influence, the ultimate power trip. The Art of Seduction is a masterful synthesis of the work of thinkers such as Freud, Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Einstein, as well as the achievements of the greatest seducers throughout history. From Cleopatra to John F. Kennedy, from Andy Warhol to Josephine Bonaparte, The Art of Seduction gets to the heart of the character of the seducer and his or her tactics, triumphs and failures.

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. 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 seduction becomes an integral memory that molds 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 ideologies 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. But if it is the hand-maiden or servant of creative individuation, then it is conventional morality that might stand in the dock.

Of course, nothing is so simple. Just as religion brings solace as well as repression, so some seducers are simply cynical and cruel while others are exciting and challenging.

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