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Introduction / Robert C. Solomon, Kathleen M. Higgins. I. From Symposium / Plato -- Poems / Sappho -- Letter on marriage and fidelity / Theano -- From The art of love / Ovid -- From The city of God / Augustine -- Letters / Heloise, Abelard -- From On love / Andreas Capellanus -- Thirteen sonnets / William Shakespeare -- On marriage and divorce / John Milton -- From Ethics / Baruch Spinoza -- From The second discourse, Emile and New Heloise / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- A fragment on love / G.W.F.Hegel -- From World as will and idea / Arthur Schopenhauer -- From On love / Stendhal (Henri Beyle) -- Selections / Friedrich Nietzsche. |
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II. On the universal tendency to debasement in the sphere of love, on narcissism: an introduction, and "civilized" sexual morality and modern nervous illness / Sigmund Freud -- Marriage as a psychological relationship / Carl Jung -- Love and marriage / Karen Horney -- Poems / Rainer Maria Rilke -- On the tragedy of women's emancipation and marriage and love / Emma Goldman -- From love in the western world / Denis de Rougemont -- The mess of love and from Women in love / D.H.Lawrence -- From Being and nothingness / Jean-Paul Sartre -- From The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- From the Pursuit of loneliness / Philip Slater -- From The dialectic of sex / Shulamith Firestone. |
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III. From The nature of love / Irving Singer -- The speech of Alcibiades: a reading of Plato's Symposium / Martha Nussbaum -- Plato's homoerotic Symposium / Jerome Neu -- Eros into logos: the rhetoric of courtly love / Louis Mackey -- Spinoza on the pathos of idolatrous love and the hilarity of true love / Amelie Rorty -- On the future of love: Rousseau and the radical feminists / Elizabeth Rapaport -- Romantic love, altruism, and self-respect: an analysis of Beauvoir / Kathryn Pauly Morgan. IV. Love's bond / Robert Nozick -- Unsafe loves / Annette Baier -- Throw the emptiness out of your arms: Rilke's doctrine of nonpossessive love / William Gass -- Reasons for loving / Laurence Thomas -- Love as theatre / Ronald de Sousa -- The virtue of (erotic) love / Robert C. Solomon. |
| Abstract |
What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword to this volume, "how incorrigibly stiff philosophy is when it undertakes to lay its icy fingers on the frilled and beating wings of the butterfly of love." Love, elusive and philosophically intractable as it is, has long fascinated philosophers. In this collection of classic and modern writings on the topic of erotic love, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers writing today. The result is a broadly conceived, comprehensive, and important work, nearly as stimulating and provocative as love itself. It examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of the wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and continue to bring, to the study of love. |
| General note | Contributions from Plato, Sappho, Theano, Ovid, Heloise and Abeland, Andreas Capellanus, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Baruch Spinoza, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G.W.F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Stendhal, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Karen Horney, D.H. Lawrence, Emma Goldman, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Philip Slater, Shulamith Firestone, Irving Singer, Martha Nussbaum, Jerome Neu, Louis Mackey, Amelie Rorty, Elizabeth Rapaport, Kathryn Pauly Morgan, Robert Nozick, Annette Baier, William Gass, Laurence Thomas, Ronald de Sousa, Robert C. Solomon.--Back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Philosophy of (erotic) love. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, ©1991 |
| LCCN | 90019340 |
| ISBN | 0700604790 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780700604791 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0700604804 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780700604807 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
