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.