Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]
… of unregulated sociability, driven by two opposite forces. On one hand, rakish narratives elevate the cult of pleasure to a philosophical stance, in which unbridled hedonism blurs the line between public and private as pleasure becomes a performance. On the other hand, this pseudo-creed also expresses itself through staunch irreverence …
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