| Description |
358 pages ; 29 cm |
| Contents |
Contents (chapter titles only): Introduction: Love's vocabulary (p.xv) -- A long desire : the history of love -- Egypt (p.3) -- Greece (p.17) -- Rome (p.29) -- The Middle Ages (p.43) -- Modern days (p.66) -- The heart is a lonely hunter : ideas about love -- Plato : the perfect union (p.95) -- Stendhal meets the Deep South (p.99) -- Denis de Rougemont : love and magic (p.105) -- Marcel Proust and the erotics of waiting (p.112) -- Freud : the origins of desire (p.123) -- Attachment theory (p.131) -- All fires the fire : the nature of love -- The loving impaired (p.139) -- Brain-stem sonata : the neurophysiology of love (p.146) -- The evolution of love (p.150) -- The chemistry of love (p.159) -- Aphrodisiacs (p.169) -- A necessary passion : the erotics of love -- Fire from the flesh : why sex evolved (p.177) -- The face (p.181) -- The hair (p.190) -- Women and horses (p.196) -- Men and cars (p.217) -- The lightest longing : sex and flying (p.227) -- Wings over Africa (p.230) -- Men and mermaids (p.236) -- Sexual chic : perversion as fashion (p.241) -- Kissing (p.249) -- On the sensuality of looking (p.255) -- Passing strange and wonderful : love's customs -- Patterns in nature (p.259) -- The courtship (p.261) -- Flesh of my flesh : the marriage (p.267) -- Of cocks and cunts (p.277) -- Love on the edge : adultery, extravagant gestures, and crimes of passion (p.279) -- Points for a compass rose : varieties of love -- Altruism (p.289) -- For the love of children : interplast (p.292) -- For the love of strangers : Life and death in the South Seas (p.308) -- On religious love (p.314) -- On transference love (p.322) -- On the love of pets (p.326) -- Postscript : the museum (p.332) -- Selected bibliography (p.338) -- Index (p.345). |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
Love -- Miscelleanea.
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| ISBN |
0679403477 |
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