The Paradox of Love / / Pascal Bruckner.
The sexual revolution is justly celebrated for the freedoms it brought--birth control, the decriminalization of abortion, the liberalization of divorce, greater equality between the sexes, women's massive entry into the workforce, and more tolerance of homosexuality. But as Pascal Bruckner, one...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
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| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. A Great Dream of Redemption
- 1. Liberating the Human Heart
- 2. Seduction as a Market
- 3. I Love You: Weakness and Capture
- Part II. Idyll and Discord
- 4. The Noble Challenge of Marriage for Love
- 5. Fluctuating Loyalties
- 6. The Pleasures and Servitudes of Living Together
- Part III. The Carnal Wonder
- 7. Is There a Sexual Revolution?
- 8. Toward a Bankruptcy of Eros?
- Part IV. The Ideology of Love
- 9. Persecution in the Name of Love: Christianity and Communism
- 10. Marcel Proust's Slippers
- Epilogue. Don't Be Ashamed!
- Afterword. Pascal Bruckner's Paradoxes
- Notes
- Index