Philosophy of love
Subtitle: a partial summing-up
By: Irving Singer.
Series: The Irving Singer library
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780262195744
Subjects: Love
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Is romantic love a recent idea?; title: Plato; title: Beyond idealism; title: Concepts of transcendence and merging; title: Courtly love and its successors; title: Varieties of romantic love; title: Identification of love and passion; title: Bestowal and appraisal in relation to Freud; title: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; title: Dualism and Freud on erotic degradation; title: Democracy as related to romanticism; title: Existentialism; title: The love of life : a pluralist perspective; title: Harmonization of Dewey and Santayana; title: The role of creativity; title: Future prospects for the philosophy of love : science and humanistic studies united.