Plato's bedroom: ancient wisdom and modern love
"Plato's Bedroom is a book for people who want to be better at falling in love and being in love, with all the ecstasies and dangers erotic life can bring. It is also an inviting book for readers who are intellectually playful and up for a challenge, written with verve, and full of stories...
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St. Augustine's Press
[2015]
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Plato's Bedroom is a book for people who want to be better at falling in love and being in love, with all the ecstasies and dangers erotic life can bring. It is also an inviting book for readers who are intellectually playful and up for a challenge, written with verve, and full of stories thoughtful persons will find to be mirrors of their own erotic selves. Drawing on Greek myth, Plato, Shakespeare, and a wide range of modern literature and movies, the book gets Aphrodite talking with the young lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and lets us listen in on Woody Allen arguing with Othello. The author's account of how we seek, fear, avoid, and sometimes destroy love, is astonishingly fresh and engaging. Throughout its pages, one hears the voice of an engaging teacher and the conversation of a wise friend. In short, this is a work of practical philosophy, not scholarship, though only a scholar could have written it. It invites readers into a deep appreciation of timeless ancient wisdom through reflecting on their own powers for love and their susceptibility to desire. A distinctive feature of the book is the interweaving of two guiding threads in Plato's conception of erotic experience: androgyny, that is, the integration of masculine and feminine; and creativity, in both a sexual and a spiritual sense. These two aspects of Plato's erotic vision, androgyny and creativity, lead readers to a sense of grateful wonder and sacred awe at our own erotic powers. Our natural experience of romantic love, articulated so well by Plato, points toward a more explicitly religious interpretation of love's commitments and pleasures"... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | 301 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781587316524 |
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Prologue 1
1. Philosophy as Love Potion 3
The wonderful names of love 4
Unsettling erotic needs in Atom Egoyan’s Exotica 11
Drinking with the gods in Plato’s Symposium 20
Dionysus and Aphrodite in Andre Dubus’s America 30
2. Avoiding Love 44
The soldier, the professor, and love’s substitutes 45
The love doctor and erotic management 56
Avoiding love in Woody Allen’s Hannah and
Her Sisters 62
3. Killing Love 72
Love in hell: the word world of Shakespeare’s
Othello 74
The blind eye of love in Jocelyn Moorhouse’s Proof 82 Pity and the killing man 94
The lover plays the cynic in Plato’s Phaedrus 102
Love trumps truth? Alan Rudolph’s The Secret
Lives of Dentists 113
4. Empty Wound and Full Heart 121
The wounded androgyne 122
Are you one of the ones? 131
The perfect couple in Patrice Leconte’s
The Hairdresser’s Husband 135
5. Union and Procreation 149
The child and the death test in Peter Jackson’s
The Lord of the Rings 150
Aristophanes versus Adam and Eve 155
Jesus and the deaf heart 160
The Garden of Eden in Andre Dubus’s America 166
6. The Phoenix of Love 176
Immortal longings and the Socratic androgyne 178
The judgment of Dionysus 189
“Sex is like the weather”: Andre Dubus’s
confession 200
7. Love’s Indignities 207
Narcissus and Echo unveiled 209
Dionysus and Aphrodite in Thomas Mann’s
Venice 223
The body’s sacraments in Gabriel Axel’s
Babette’s Feast 232
8. Love’s Dream 245
The Green World and the bedroom 246
Catching desire in a cynical mood 257
The grateful vision 167
Sources and Acknowledgments 280
Index 284
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