Author:
Singer, Irving.
Imprint:Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
Descriptionxviii, 125 p. ; 21 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:Is romantic love a recent idea? -- Plato -- Beyond idealism -- Concepts of transcendence and merging -- Courtly love and its successors -- Varieties of romantic love -- Identification of love and passion -- Bestowal and appraisal in relation to Freud -- Schopenhauer and Nietzsche -- Implications for marriage -- Dualism and Freud on erotic degradation -- Democracy as related to romanticism -- Existentialism -- The love of life : a pluralist perspective -- Harmonization of Dewey and Santayana -- The role of creativity -- Future prospects for the philosophy of love : science and humanistic studies united.
