Philosophy of love : a partial summing-up /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singer, Irving (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts. ; London : MIT Press, 2011.
Edition:First MIT Press paperback edition.
Subjects:
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.