"In 1984 philosopher Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much-acclaimed trilogy, The Nature of Love. In this new book, he maps the trajectory of his thinking on love." "It is a "partial" summing-up of a lifework: partial because it exp...

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1. Verfasser:	Singer, Irving 1925-2015 (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, MA [u.a.] MIT Press 2009
Schriftenreihe:	The Irving Singer library
Schlagworte:	Love Philosophie Liebe
Online-Zugang:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Zusammenfassung:	"In 1984 philosopher Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much-acclaimed trilogy, The Nature of Love. In this new book, he maps the trajectory of his thinking on love." "It is a "partial" summing-up of a lifework: partial because it expresses the author's still unfolding views, and because love - like any subject of that magnitude - resists a neatly comprehensive, all-inclusive formulation. Adopting an informal, even conversational, tone, Singer discusses, among other topics, the history of romantic love; the Platonic ideal; courtly and nineteenth-century Romantic love; the nature of passion; the concept of merging (and his critique of it); ideas about love in Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey, Santayana, Sartre, and other writers; and love in relation to democracy, existentialism, creativity, and the possible future of scientific investigation."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:	Includes index.
Beschreibung:	XVIII, 125 S.
ISBN:	9780262195744