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Love : a history / edited by Ryan Patrick Hanley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford philosophical concepts.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford philosophical concepts
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love--Philosophy.
- Love.
- Love--Religious aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (393 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- This volume chronicles the philosophical evolution of the concept of love, with each chapter providing an introduction to a discrete turning point in this evolutionary history.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Series
- Love
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editor's Foreword
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Love Transcendent and Immanent
- 1. Love, Human and Divine in the Hebrew Bible and Judaic Tradition
- 2. Love in Plato and Aristotle
- Reflection: Platonic Love Poetry
- 3. Love in the Christian Tradition
- 4. Love in Islamic Philosophy
- 5. The Personal Experience of Transcendental Love: Mystics and Contemplatives in the Medieval Christian Tradition
- Reflection: Love That Moves: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
- 6. Turning toward the One / Good: Marsilio Ficino's Philosophy of Love
- 7. A Metaphysical Basis for Love? Descartes and Spinoza on the Metaphysics of Love
- 8. Anne Conway on the Love-Worthiness and Perfectibility of All Things
- Reflection: Love, Sculpture, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- 9. Love in Kant and the Enlightenment
- 10. Beyond the realms of dream that fleeting shade: Rousseau on Romantic Love
- Reflection: Love in Jane Austen's Novels
- 11. Kierkegaard's Theistic Conception of Love, Existentially Considered
- Reflection: The Concept of Love in Modern Psychology
- 12. Love and Desire in Nietzsche and Levinas
- Reflection: Love as Social Force: Martin Luther King Jr.
- General Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 11, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780197536513
- 0197536514
- 9780197536490
- 0197536492
- OCLC:
- 1438693013
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