Philosophy of love : a partial summing-up /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts. ; London :
MIT Press,
2011.
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| Edition: | First MIT Press paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Is romantic love a recent idea?
- Plato
- Beyond idealism
- Concepts of transcendence and merging
- Courtly love and its successors
- Varieties of romantic love
- Identification of love and passion
- Bestowal and appraisal in relation to Freud
- Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
- Implications for marriage
- Dualism and Freud on erotic degradation
- Democracy as related to romanticism
- Existentialism
- The love of life : a pluralist perspective
- Harmonization of Dewey and Santayana
- The role of creativity
- Future prospects for the philosophy of love : science and humanistic studies united.