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Calvin Blanchard and The Art of Real Pleasure
- Utopian Studies
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 24, Number 2, 2013
- pp. 312-328
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The Art of Real Pleasure (1864) by Calvin Blanchard focuses on sexual pleasure in the context of a significantly improved society as essential for the good life. This essay examines Blanchard’s life and works and places them in a often neglected thread of the Western utopian tradition.