Love : a history / / Simon May.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 294 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Love plays God
- The foundation of Western love : Hebrew scripture
- From physical desire to paradise : Plato
- Love as perfect friendship : Aristotle
- Love as sexual desire : Lucretius and Ovid
- Love as the supreme virtue : Christianity
- Why Christian love isn't unconditional
- Women on top : love and the troubadours
- How human nature became loveable : from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance
- Love as joyful understanding of the whole : Spinoza
- Love as enlightened romanticism : Rousseau
- Love as religion : Schlegel and Novalis
- Love as the urge to procreate : Schopenhauer
- Love as affirmation of life : Nietzsche
- Love as a history of loss : Freud
- Love as terror and tedium : Proust
- Love reconsidered.