Philosophy of love : a partial summing-up / Irving Singer.

Author/creator Singer, Irving
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Descriptionxviii, 125 pages ; 21 cm.
Subjects

SeriesThe Irving Singer Library
Singer, Irving. Irving Singer library. ^A796310
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.
General noteIncludes index.
LCCN 2008035944
ISBN9780262195744 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0262195747 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BD436 .S522 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold