The Lost Philosophy Of Love
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Author | : Irving Singer |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2011-01-07 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0262261162 |
The author of the classic philosophical treatment of love reflects on the trajectory, over decades, of his thoughts on love and other topics. In 1984, Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much acclaimed trilogy on love. Trained as an analytical philosopher, Singer first approached his subject with the tools of current philosophical methodology. Dissatisfied by the initial results (finding the chapters he had written “just dreary and unproductive of anything”), he turned to the history of ideas in philosophy and the arts for inspiration. He discovered an immensity of speculation and artistic practice that reached wholly beyond the parameters he had been trained to consider truly philosophical. In his three-volume work The Nature of Love, Singer tried to make sense of this historical progression within a framework that reflected his precise distinction-making and analytical background. In this new book, he maps the trajectory of his thinking on love. It is a “partial” summing-up of a lifework: partial because it expresses the author's still unfolding views, because it is a recapitulation of many published pages, because love—like any subject of that magnitude—resists a neatly comprehensive, all-inclusive formulation. Adopting an informal, even conversational, tone, Singer discusses, among other topics, the history of romantic love, the Platonic ideal, courtly and nineteenth-century Romantic love; the nature of passion; the concept of merging (and his critique of it); ideas about love in Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey, Santayana, Sartre, and other writers; and love in relation to democracy, existentialism, creativity, and the possible future of scientific investigation. Singer's writing on love embodies what he has learned as a contemporary philosopher, studying other authors in the field and “trying to get a little further.” This book continues his trailblazing explorations.
Author | : Roy Victor Love |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Love |
ISBN | : 9780959368000 |
Author | : Naftali Rothenberg |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2017-08-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3319581422 |
This book explores the philosophy of love through the thought and life of Rabbi Akiva ben Joseph. Readers of the Talmud are introduced to Rabbi Akiva through the iconic story of his love for his wife Rachel. From this starting point, Naftali Rothenberg conducts a thorough examination of the harmonious approach to love in the obstacle-laden context of human reality. Discussing the deterioration of passion into simple lust, the ability to contend with suffering and death, and so forth, Rothenberg addresses the deepest and most pressing questions about human love. The readings and observations offered here allow readers to acquire the wisdom of love—not merely as an assemblage of theoretical arguments and abstract statements, but as an analysis of the internal contradictions and difficulties revealed in the context of attempts to realize and implement harmonious love.
Author | : Sharon M. Kaye |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Kaag |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2016-10-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0374713111 |
The epic wisdom contained in a lost library helps the author turn his life around John Kaag is a dispirited young philosopher at sea in his marriage and his career when he stumbles upon West Wind, a ruin of an estate in the hinterlands of New Hampshire that belonged to the eminent Harvard philosopher William Ernest Hocking. Hocking was one of the last true giants of American philosophy and a direct intellectual descendent of William James, the father of American philosophy and psychology, with whom Kaag feels a deep kinship. It is James’s question “Is life worth living?” that guides this remarkable book. The books Kaag discovers in the Hocking library are crawling with insects and full of mold. But he resolves to restore them, as he immediately recognizes their importance. Not only does the library at West Wind contain handwritten notes from Whitman and inscriptions from Frost, but there are startlingly rare first editions of Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant. As Kaag begins to catalog and read through these priceless volumes, he embarks on a thrilling journey that leads him to the life-affirming tenets of American philosophy—self-reliance, pragmatism, and transcendence—and to a brilliant young Kantian who joins him in the restoration of the Hocking books. Part intellectual history, part memoir, American Philosophy is ultimately about love, freedom, and the role that wisdom can play in turning one’s life around.
Author | : Susan Wolf |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2014-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195384504 |
A unique and interdisciplinary collection in which scholars from Philosophy join those from Film Studies, English, and Comparative Literature to explore the nature and limits of love through in-depth reflection on particular works of literature and film.
Author | : Roy Victor Wallace |
Publisher | : Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2010-12 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9781456813383 |
Many years ago I was asked "Roy what is the answer to achieve harmony Amongst all work forces?" I have answered that question with "The workings of Many Waters" Giving back to the people the ability to control their own destiny, without A big brother frustration. Immerse yourself in an ideal world with a copy of "The Lost Philosophy of Love" and share these values through this creative manual to achieving the ideal world. WORDS BY JACQUELINE ALEXANDRA SOMMERSBY Roy, the world will thank you for your deep rooted philosophy of showing such a level of human dignity and open love for one's fellow man, and a life bond with a huge deep respect shown at all times for one's partner in life and towards that forged partnership-forged on a bond with one's similarities and on finding a good compromise in all of one's different traits, creating and working endlessly towards togetherness and having a life together that is mindful, loyal, devoted and is blessed as a result with feel good days and nights. This book can create a better mind set in people and carry within people's better reasoning a desire to have a World Peace Domain-based on closer personal relations and a deeper wider understanding of a universal gathering promoting friendliness, love, human respect and great loyalty. May your life philosophy bring about a world peace order existence in complete harmony with "and at one" with all of nature and nature's serene peacefulness and deep set natural beauty-bathed in this World's Earth Light and the changing colours of the Earth's four seasons.
Author | : Aaron Ben-Ze'ev |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022663406X |
Is love best when it is fresh? For many, the answer is a resounding “yes.” The intense experiences that characterize new love are impossible to replicate, leading to wistful reflection and even a repeated pursuit of such ecstatic beginnings. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev takes these experiences seriously, but he’s also here to remind us of the benefits of profound love—an emotion that can only develop with time. In The Arc of Love, he provides an in-depth, philosophical account of the experiences that arise in early, intense love—sexual passion, novelty, change—as well as the benefits of cultivating long-term, profound love—stability, development, calmness. Ben-Ze’ev analyzes the core of emotions many experience in early love and the challenges they encounter, and he offers pointers for weathering these challenges. Deploying the rigorous analysis of a philosopher, but writing clearly and in an often humorous style with an eye to lived experience, he takes on topics like compromise, commitment, polyamory, choosing a partner, online dating, and when to say “I love you.” Ultimately, Ben-Ze’ev assures us, while love is indeed best when fresh, if we tend to it carefully, it can become more delicious and nourishing even as time marches on.
Author | : Tzachi Zamir |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0190695080 |
At the base camp - imagining -- First climb - wisdom -- First crossroad - knowledge -- Second climb - meaningful action -- Second crossroad - purchase -- Third climb - meaningless action -- Third crossroad - place -- Fourth climb - receiving -- Fourth crossroad - needs -- Fifth climb - gratitude -- Fifth crossroad - sin -- At the summit
Author | : Clive Staples Lewis |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780151329168 |
Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.