Empire of the Gods: The Liberation of Eros (New Perspectives in Philosophical Scholarship:  Texts and Issues)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing; Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
Published: March 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9780820430577
Subjects: Movements - Humanism; Love; Philosophy
Description: Empire of the Gods makes a major and original contribution to the literature on love. The history of Eros is its attempted liberation into wholeness and individuality. Its modern expression as a flesh-monism requires expansion to include reason and spirit (including Agape), the classical, to include affect and flesh.

The illicit character of the Romantic Love of the Twelfth Century (seen as two versions: Utopian and Historical) provides a radical key not only to synthesis but also to surmounting oppressive enculturation, particularly in the marriage institution. Relationship is the synthesizing focus of illicit love, philosophical dialogue and psychotherapy.