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.
Angelika
7.3.2023
The first minute of this is already historically questionable at best and clearly full of sexist assumptions: brute strength used to rule all societies, men always want sex and women had to use their sexual allure as a means to gain at least some power. If you're all like "well, duh, of course that's what the world was like for most of human (pre)history", you might come to a more positive conclusion than I did.