Love's Confusions

Informationen zum Autor C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Klappentext Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, and Lawrence, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. He invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing. Zusammenfassung Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare! Proust! Forster! Beckett! Huxley! and Lawrence! Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. He invites us to think more broadly about love! and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing.

Klappentext

Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, and Lawrence, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. He invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing.

Inhalt

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