Love [electronic resource] : a history / Simon May.
May, Simon (Simon Philip Walter)
2011
BD436 .M375 2011eb
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Title Love [electronic resource] : a history / Simon May.
Author May, Simon (Simon Philip Walter)
ISBN 9780300177237 (electronic book)
9780300118308
Publication Details New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 294 p.)
Call Number BD436 .M375 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 128/.4609
Summary Traces the history of love and how it developed from its Hebraic and Greek origins to an ideal that obsesses the modern Western world, and highlights philosophers that have challenged conventional thoughts on love and happiness.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
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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.

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