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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778166503321

Autore

Reeve C. D. C. <1948->

Titolo

Love's confusions [[electronic resource] /] / C.D.C. Reeve

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2005

ISBN

0-674-04261-1

Descrizione fisica

viii, 203 p

Classificazione

CB 5100

Disciplina

128.46

Soggetti

Love

Life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1 AGAPE, EROS, AND THE WILL -- 2 SEEING, IMPROVISING, AND SELF-LOVE -- 3 FIRST LOVE AND AFTER -- 4 ANXIETY AND THE ETHICS OF INTIMACY -- 5 JEALOUSY, PERVERSITY, AND OTHER LIABILITIES OF LOVE -- 6 SENTIMENTALITY AND THE GIFT OF THE SELF -- 7 LEBENSRAUM, DESIRE, AND THE ENVY OF ETERNITY -- 8 VIOLENCE, PORNOGRAPHY, AND SADOMASOCHISM -- 9 WORK AND/AS LOVE -- 10 SEX, DEMOCRACY, AND THE FUTURE OF LOVE -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. Looking at love in light of the classical world and Christianity, and in its complex relationship with pornography, violence, sadomasochism, fantasy, sentimentality, and jealousy, Reeve invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing.