Love

May, Simon

Love a history / [electronic resource] : Simon May. - New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011. - xiv, 294 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Love plays God -- The foundation of Western love : Hebrew scripture -- From physical desire to paradise : Plato -- Love as perfect friendship : Aristotle -- Love as sexual desire : Lucretius and Ovid -- Love as the supreme virtue : Christianity -- Why Christian love isn't unconditional -- Women on top : love and the troubadours -- How human nature became loveable : from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- Love as joyful understanding of the whole : Spinoza -- Love as enlightened romanticism : Rousseau -- Love as religion : Schlegel and Novalis -- Love as the urge to procreate : Schopenhauer -- Love as affirmation of life : Nietzsche -- Love as a history of loss : Freud -- Love as terror and tedium : Proust -- Love reconsidered.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2011.
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Love--History.


Electronic books.

BD436 / .M375 2011eb

128/.4609