How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and marriage really go together ' like a horse and carriage'? Does sex have any necessary connection to either? And how important are love, sex, and marriage to a well-lived life? In this lively, lucid, and comprehensive te…
How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and marriage really go together 'like a horse and carriage'? Does sex have any necessary connection to either? And how important are love, sex, and marriage to a well-lived life? This book pursues the philosophical question…
How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and marriage really go together "like a horse and carriage"? Does sex have any necessary connection to either? And how important are love, sex, and marriage to a well-lived life? In this lively, lucid, and comprehensive tex…
"This existential study of romantic loving draws on five existential philosophers to offer insights into what is wrong with our everyday ideas about romantic loving, why reality often falls short of the ideal, what can be done to overcome frustrations and disappointments, and po…
From the publisher. Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to just…
Explores the philosophical notion of love, and argues that love is more complex than conventional thought would have us believe.
Explores the philosophical notion of love, and argues that love is more complex than conventional thought would have us believe.
"Armée de ses seuls concepts, la philosophie peut-elle saisir ce qu'il y a de charnel, de déraisonnable et d'ineffable dans chaque histoire d'amour ? Pour Ruwen Ogien, la réponse ne fait aucun doute : le philosophe ne doit pas renoncer à ses ambitions intellectuelles devant l'ém…
Drawing on psychology, philosophy, anthropology and statistics, Love Understood combines evidence, theory and everyday experience to explain how we think, feel and behave when it comes to love.
Drawing on psychology, philosophy, anthropology and statistics, Love Understood combines evidence, theory and everyday experience to explain how we think, feel and behave when it comes to love.
