《爱欲与文明》,这一书名就表述了一种乐观的,委婉的,甚至是积极的思想,也就是说,发达工业社会的成就将使人们能够扭转进步的方向,打破生产与破坏、自由与压抑之间不可避免的联合——换言之,将使人们能够学会一种“享乐的科学”(gaya sciencia),这种科学讲的是在对付死亡供应者(purveyofs of death) “Eros and civilization,” the title of the book expresses an optimistic, euphemistic and even positive thinking, that is to say, the achievements of advanced industrial society will enable people to reverse the direction of progress and break the gap between production and destruction , The unavoidable union between freedom and repression - in other words, will enable one to learn of a “gaya sciencia” that deals with purveyofs of death,