Eros in Plato, Rousseau, and Nietzsche : : The Politics of Infinity / / Laurence D. Cooper.

Human beings are restless souls, ever driven by an insistent inner force not only to have more but to be more-to be infinitely more. Various philosophers have emphasized this type of ceaseless striving in their accounts of humanity, as in Spinoza's notion of conatus and Hobbes's identifica...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t List of Abbreviations --   |t Introduction: The Oneness of Desire-But Which One --   |t 1 The Republic as Prologue --   |t PART ONE Platonic Eros-the Effectual Truth --   |t 2 First Truths --   |t 3 What Does Eros Want --   |t 4 Love of Wisdom versus Love of the Wise: Eros in Action --   |t PART TWO Rousseau and the Expansiveness of Being --   |t 5 Between Eros and Will to Power: Rousseau and ''The Desire to Extend Our Being'' --   |t 6 Emile, or On Philosophy --   |t PART THREE Nietzsche's New Eternity --   |t 7 Nietzsche's Politeia, I --   |t 8 Nietzsche's Politeia, II --   |t 9 Will to Power versus Eros, or a Battle of Eternities --   |t Epilogue: One or Many --   |t References --   |t Index 
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