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The Laws of Love: A Brief Historical and Practical Manual

By Peter Goodrich

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2007
ISBN
023000718X, 9780230007185
Open Library ID
OL10193958M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4987564 bytes)
Series
Language, Discourse, Society
Pages
260\248
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Time added
2011-04-20 14:05:05

Description

You are at a dinner with someone attractive. She suddenly kisses you. Or he leans unexpectedly across the table and caresses your thigh. Whatever. You know the kind of encounter and the range of possible responses. Consider the kiss. What does it mean, and where does it lead? Does kissing necessarily imply more, and if so how much? These and similar questions of amorous ethics and erotic disquisition are the central to our everyday intimate public lives and they are the lost object of the law of love, the lex amatoria collated and presented here.

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