The nature of love. 3, The modern world /

This third volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' examines the pervasive dialectic between optimistic idealism and pessimistic realism in modern thinking about the nature of love. The author offers detailed studies of Freud, Proust, Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, and Santayana, and...

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Main Author: Singer, Irving
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Series:[Irving Singer library]
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Summary:This third volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' examines the pervasive dialectic between optimistic idealism and pessimistic realism in modern thinking about the nature of love. The author offers detailed studies of Freud, Proust, Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, and Santayana, and maps the ideas about love in Continental existentialism, particularly those of Sartre and de Beauvoir.
Item Description:Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.
Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
ISBN:9780262315135
0262315130
DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262512749.001.0001