Love
Subtitle: a history
By: Simon May
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Subjects: Love; History
Table of contents: title: Love plays God; title: The foundation of Western love : Hebrew scripture; title: From physical desire to paradise : Plato; title: Love as perfect friendship : Aristotle; title: Love as sexual desire : Lucretius and Ovid; title: Love as the supreme virtue : Christianity; title: Why Christian love isn't unconditional; title: Women on top : love and the troubadours; title: How human nature became loveable : from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance; title: Love as joyful understanding of the whole : Spinoza; title: Love as enlightened romanticism : Rousseau; title: Love as religion : Schlegel and Novalis; title: Love as the urge to procreate : Schopenhauer; title: Love as affirmation of life : Nietzsche; title: Love as a history of loss : Freud; title: Love as terror and tedium : Proust; title: Love reconsidered.