Sociology of love : the agapic dimension of societal life / Gennaro Iorio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Iorio, Gennaro, 1971- author.

Series:

Vernon Series in Sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agape.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Wilmington, Delaware] : Vernon Press, 2015.

Summary:

This short book deals with a sociological concept: love-agape. It is an attempt to demonstrate that love-agape resists, indeed insists, as a fact that cannot be reduced or concealed. Its simple goal is to introduce agape into the vocabulary of sociological analysis by demonstrating its potential to demarcate and to interpret social phenomena. Love-agape is presented as a critical concept. On the one hand, love-agape denounces the risks linked to the needs of closed groups, often absolutist and fundamentalist. On the other hand, it represents a concrete reality, lying at the root of a particul

Contents:

Chapter 1 What is agape; Chapter 2 What Agape is not; Chapter 3 Love in the sociological tradition; Chapter 4 The agape: the micro and the macro.; Chapter 5 Case Studies; Chapter 6 Epilogue; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781622731633

1622731638

OCLC:

957128272