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xii, 522 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins. I. From Symposium / Plato -- Poems / Sappho -- Letter on marriage and fidelity / Theano -- From The art of love / Ovid -- From The city of God / Augustine -- Letters / Heloise, Abelard -- From On love / Andreas Capellanus -- Thirteen sonnets / William Shakespeare -- On marriage and divorce / John Milton -- From Ethics / Baruch Spinoza -- From The second discourse, Emile and New Heloise / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- A fragment on love / G.W.F.Hegel -- From World as will and idea / Arthur Schopenhauer -- From On love / Stendhal (Henri Beyle) -- Selections / Friedrich Nietzsche. |
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II. On the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of love, on narcissism: an introduction, and "civilized" sexual morality and modern nervous illness / Sigmund Freud -- Marriage as a psychological relationship / Carl Jung -- Love and marriage / Karen Horney -- Poems / Rainer Maria Rilke -- On the tragedy of women's emancipation and marriage and love / Emma Goldman -- From love in the western world / Denis de Rougemont -- The mess of love and from Women in love / D.H.Lawrence -- From Being and nothingness / Jean-Paul Sartre -- From The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- From the Pursuit of loneliness / Philip Slater -- From The dialectic of sex / Shulamith Firestone. |
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III. From The nature of love / Irving Singer -- The speech of Alcibiades: a reading of Plato's Symposium / Martha Nussbaum -- Plato's homoerotic Symposium / Jerome Neu -- Eros into logos: the rhetoric of courtly love / Louis Mackey -- Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty -- On the future of love: Rousseau and the radical feminists / Elizabeth Rapaport -- Romantic love, altruism, and self-respect: an analysis of Beauvoir / Kathryn Pauly Morgan. IV. Love's bond / Robert Nozick -- Unsafe loves / Annette Baier -- Throw the emptiness out of your arms: Rilke's doctrine of nonpossessive love / William Gass -- Reasons for loving / Laurence Thomas -- Love as theatre / Ronald de Sousa -- The virtue of (erotic) love / Robert C. Solomon. |
| Summary |
Contributions from Plato, Sappho, Theano, Ovid, Heloise and Abeland, Andreas Capellanus, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Baruch Spinoza, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.W.F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Stendhal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Karen Horney, D.H. Lawrence, Emma Goldman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Philip Slater, Shulamith Firestone, Irving Singer, Martha Nussbaum, Jerome Neu, Louis Mackey, Amelie Rorty, Elizabeth Rapaport, Kathryn Pauly Morgan, Robert Nozick, Annette Baier, William Gass, Laurence Thomas, Ronald de Sousa, Robert C. Solomon.--Back cover. |
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Love.
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Sex.
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Amour.
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Sexualité.
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Love. (OCoLC)fst01002769
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Sex. (OCoLC)fst01114160
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Erotik (DE-588)4015369-1
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Geschichte (DE-588)4020517-4
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Liebe, ... (DE-588)128078316
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Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5
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Philosophie (DE-588)4045791-6
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Quelle (DE-588)4135952-5
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Liebe.
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| Indexed Term |
History of ... |
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Love |
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Sex |
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Sexual behaviour |
| Added Author |
Solomon, Robert C.
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Higgins, Kathleen Marie.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Philosophy of (erotic) love. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©1991 (OCoLC)645687620 |
| ISBN |
0700604790 (alk. paper) |
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9780700604791 (alk. paper) |
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0700604804 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780700604807 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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