ENGLISH

Love: a Secret History

By Simon , May

Book information

Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780300118308, 9780300177237, 0300177232
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
637 kB (651943 bytes)
Pages
313 pages\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Love--History;Love -- History

Description

Acknowledgements; Preface; Love plays God; The foundation of Western love; From physical desire to paradise; Love as perfect friendship; Love as sexual desire; Love as the supreme virtue; Why Christian love isn't unconditional; Women as ideals; How human nature became loveable; Love as joyful understanding of the whole; Love as Enlightened Romanticism; Love as religion; Love as the urge to procreate; Love as affirmation of life; Love as a history of loss; Love as terror and tedium; Love reconsidered; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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