Sleepless Nights : The Faults and Failings of Love / Stuart Walton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walton, Stuart, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Washington : Academica Press, [2024]

Summary:

Sleepless Nights: The Faults and Failings of Love is an inquiry into the cultural and psychological forces at work in our most intimate relationships. Romanticized and theorized throughout all ages, love remains the paradigm of human experience, the one aspect of life that could redeem all the suffering and disappointment to which we are otherwise heir. And yet it too often forms part of that very suffering itself. In this daring and reflective book, Stuart Walton invites the reader to check into a love hotel with a difference. Instead of selling rooms by the hour, this one offers a luxurious vacation from everyday reality, but in each of its public areas and in its guestrooms, a different scenario is unfolding that relates to the conduct of romantic liaisons in actuality, their momentary splendors, and the crashing and burning to which so many of them are subject. With help from philosophers and musicians through the ages, we find our way to a clear-sighted and honest assessment of the pitfalls and trapdoors with which all love, however ideally conceived, is furnished.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Previous Works

Contents

Dedication

Preface

Introduction

Part One: Causes

1: Devotion, Enslavement and Obsession

2: Desire and its Rationalisations

3: Loss and Lack

4: Cognate Forms of Love

Part Two: Effects

5: You and Me Against the World: From Universal Amity to Monomania

6: Of Loving, Tarnishing, and Drooling: The Golden Rule According to Leonard Cohen

7: Sticking with it

8: Separate Beds: On Divorce and Breakups

9: Running Out of Road

10: Seek and You Will Find

11: The Internal Politics of Relationships

12: ‘I Don’t Let that Stuff in My House’ On Not Loving

13: I’ll Be Your Mirror

14: One Can but Hope

Epilogue

Love Notes

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Includes index.

ISBN:

9781680533224

1680533223

OCLC:

1458760699