Love's confusions / C.D.C. Reeve.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reeve, C. D. C., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Life.

Physical Description:

viii, 203 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780674042612

0674042611

OCLC:

1013940983