Whereas Education of the Senses focused on the sexual attitudes and practices of the nineteenth-century bourgeoisie, The Tender Passion concentrates on their notions of love. No less revisionist than he was in his first volume, Gay argues here that the Victorians were able not o…
"Inspired by the critical theories of M.M. Bakhtin, Idleness Working is a groundbreaking study of key works in the Western literature of love from Classical Rome to the late Middle Ages. The study focuses on the evolution of the ideologically-saturated discourse of love's labor …
"Inspired by the critical theories of M.M. Bakhtin, Idleness Working is a groundbreaking study of key works in the Western literature of love from Classical Rome to the late Middle Ages. The study focuses on the evolution of the ideologically-saturated discourse of love's labor …
Aan de hand van teksten van bekende schrijvers wordt de betekenis van liefde, eros en vriendschap geanalyseerd
"Written with the erudition and wit that made The Closing of the American Mind a #1 best-seller, Love and Friendship is a searching examination of the basic human connections at the center of the greatest works of literature and philosophy throughout the ages." "In a spirited po…
"Written with the erudition and wit that made 'The Closing of the American Mind' a #1 best-seller, 'Love and Friendship' is a searching examination of the basic human connections at the center of the greatest works of literature and philosophy throughout the ages. In a spirited …
Love, Reason, and Will introduces and investigates themes common to Harry G. Frankfurt and Sren Kierkegaard, focusing particularly on their understanding of love. Several distinguished contributors argue that Kierkegaard's insights about love, volition, and identity can help us …
A note on Julian's text -- Providence and sin -- Sin and salvation -- Conclusion : Julian's soteriology.
Mary Evans investigates the sources of our ideas about love, where the concept originated and what its relationship has been to morality and moral systems; and our determination to find love, whatever the costs.
"This book explores two aspects of the nature of the apparently socially essential 'glue' of love. The first theme concerns the sources of our ideas about love: where the concept originated and, most importantly, what its relationship has been to morality and moral systems. The …
