Love: A HistoryYale University Press, 19 ביולי 2011 - 294 עמודים DIVLove--unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting--is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage. Tracing over 2,500 years of human thought and history, May shows how our ideal of love developed from its Hebraic and Greek origins alongside Christianity until, during the last two centuries, "God is love" became "love is God"--so hubristic, so escapist, so untruthful to the real nature of love, that it has booby-trapped relationships everywhere with deluded expectations. Brilliantly, May explores the very different philosophers and writers, both skeptics and believers, who dared to think differently: from Aristotle's perfect friendship and Ovid's celebration of sex and "the chase," to Rousseau's personal authenticity, Nietzsche's affirmation, Freud's concepts of loss and mourning, and boredom in Proust. Against our belief that love is an all-powerful solution to finding meaning, security, and happiness in life, May reveals with great clarity what love actually is: the intense desire for someone whom we believe can ground and affirm our very existence. The feeling that "makes the world go round" turns out to be a harbinger of home--and in that sense, of the sacred./div |
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מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
affirm agape amour de soi Aristophanes Aristotle Art of Love Augustine beauty become century Christian death delight Deuteronomy divine Epicurus Eros erotic eternal ethical everything evil existence experience expression fear feel flourishing Freud Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Schlegel friends friendship friendship-love Genealogy of Morals genuine love give God's grace Greek hate Hebrew Scripture human love idea ideal individual inspire intimacy Jesus lives Lord love's lover Lucretius marriage Matthew means Meister Eckhart merely Montaigne moral Narrator Nature of Love neighbour never Nietzsche Novalis one's oneself ontological rootedness ourselves Ovid passion perfect person philia Plato pleasure possess Proust reality recognise relationship religion romantic Romanticism Rousseau sake says Schlegel Schopenhauer sect seek sense sexual desire Sigmund Freud Singer someone sort soul Spinoza spiritual striving suffering supreme Symposium things Thomas Aquinas tradition trans troubadours ultimate unconditional virtue Western love whole woman words