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Publication
Profile Books (2004), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 468 pages
Description
Robert Greene's previous bestseller, The 48 Laws of Power, distilled 3,000 years of scheming into a guide People praised as 'beguiling... literate... fascinating' and Kirkus denounced as 'an anti-Book of Virtues.' In Art of Seduction, Greene returns with a new instruction book on the most subtle, elusive, and effective form of power because seduction isn't really about sex. It's about manipulating other people's greatest weakness: their desire for pleasure. Synthesizing the work of thinkers including Freud, Diderot, Nietzsche, and Einstein, reporting the enticing strategies of characters throughout history, The Art of Seduction is a comprehensive guide to getting what we want any way we can.
User reviews
LibraryThing member rajendran
Seduction is the most elusive, subtle and effective form of power that exists.
It is based on a simple fact of psychology: humans are perverse, stubborn creatures who by nature will rarely do what you want. If you try to force them, they resist. The best way to bypass their natural resistance is to
It is based on a simple fact of psychology: humans are perverse, stubborn creatures who by nature will rarely do what you want. If you try to force them, they resist. The best way to bypass their natural resistance is to
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hit at their weakest spot, what they can least control, their desire for pleasure. Stir such desires, pleasantly confuse and lead them astray, inflame them, and they will succumb to your will. Show Less
LibraryThing member brigittassen23
a brilliant and entirely unique book in the fact that it is an actual how-to. not a pick up chicks book, an actual make the world your slave how to
LibraryThing member Jaylabelle
Great insights into relationships and a wonderful handbook on the world's greatest seducers...
LibraryThing member JasonFG
Book by the author of 48 laws of power. This book helps you identify and streamline your seduction style. Are you a rake? Siren? Charmer? It gives historical or fictional examples of the types. Don Juan = Rake. Cassanove = ideal lover. I think Kennedy was a Charismatic (and some other types).
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myself don't use the book for seduction. I used the book to identify my victem type (weakness) so that I wouldn't not fall prey to certain types of seducers. Show Less
LibraryThing member DaveHowe
I wasn't thrilled with this book as I was with Robert Greens Mastery. As with Mastery I can see and respect the research put in to his books, but I couldn't keep myself motivated to keep reading; a sign to put the book down. There was some interesting psychology take a ways but my reading time is
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valuable, on to the next one. Show Less
LibraryThing member lente
Changed my mind, I thought it was a great book, but the content may be somewhat questionable after all.
Language
Original publication date
2001
Physical description
468 p.; 9.06 inches
ISBN
1861977697 / 9781861977694
Local notes
Get what you want by manipulating everyone's greatest weakness: the desire for pleasure. Goes through the characters and qualities of the ten archetypal figures of seduction and manoeuvres to overcome a victim.