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UNINA9910456632603321 |
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Autore |
May Simon (Simon Philip Walter) |
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Titolo |
Love [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Simon May |
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New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2011 |
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1-280-57169-1 |
9786613601292 |
0-300-17723-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Love - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Love plays God -- The foundation of Western love : Hebrew scripture -- From physical desire to paradise : Plato -- Love as perfect friendship : Aristotle -- Love as sexual desire : Lucretius and Ovid -- Love as the supreme virtue : Christianity -- Why Christian love isn't unconditional -- Women on top : love and the troubadours -- How human nature became loveable : from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- Love as joyful understanding of the whole : Spinoza -- Love as enlightened romanticism : Rousseau -- Love as religion : Schlegel and Novalis -- Love as the urge to procreate : Schopenhauer -- Love as affirmation of life : Nietzsche -- Love as a history of loss : Freud -- Love as terror and tedium : Proust -- Love reconsidered. |
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Love-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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910461257403321 |
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Autore |
Stibbe Arran |
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Animals erased [[electronic resource] ] : discourse, ecology, and reconnection with the natural world / / Arran Stibbe |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-45757-1 |
9786613457578 |
0-8195-7233-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Human-animal relationships |
Animals and civilization |
Animals - Social aspects |
Discourse analysis |
Animal welfare |
Nature - Effect of human beings on |
Human ecology - Philosophy |
Environmental ethics |
Ecology - Philosophy |
Ecology - Moral and ethical aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: Vanishing Animals -- Destructive Discourses : Animals within a Symbolic World -- As Charming as a Pig -- From Flu-like Virus to Deadly Disease -- Counter-discourses : Animals in Ecology and Environmentalism -- The Curtailed Journey of the Atlantic Salmon -- Boyd's Forest Dragon or the Survival of Humanity -- From Counter-discourses to Alternative Discourses : Environmental Education in Japan -- Haiku and Beyond -- Zen and the Art of Environmental Education. |
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A linguist explores our relationships with animals and the natural world |
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