Love (ePub)
A History
(Sprache: Englisch)
"What is love? May plunders Western poetry, philosophy and psychology to find answers . . . Thought-provoking stuff" (The Sunday Telegraph).
Love-unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting-is worshipped today as the West's only...
Love-unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting-is worshipped today as the West's only...
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"What is love? May plunders Western poetry, philosophy and psychology to find answers . . . Thought-provoking stuff" (The Sunday Telegraph).
Love-unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting-is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this path-breaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage.
Tracing over twenty-five hundred years of human thought and history, May shows how our idea of love developed from its Hebraic and Greek origins alongside Christianity until, during the last two centuries, "God is love" became "love is God"-so hubristic, so escapist, so untruthful to the real nature of love, that it has booby-trapped relationships everywhere with deluded expectations. Brilliantly, May explores the very different philosophers and writers, both skeptics and believers, who dared to think differently: from Aristotle's perfect friendship and Ovid's celebration of sex and "the chase," to Rousseau's personal authenticity, Nietzsche's affirmation, Freud's concepts of loss and mourning, and boredom in Proust. Against our belief that love is an all-powerful solution to finding meaning, security, and happiness in life, May reveals with great clarity what love actually is-and what it means.
"The most persuasive account of love's nature I have ever read." -Financial Times
"Intellectually engaging . . . Provocative." -The Wall Street Journal
Love-unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally accepting-is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this path-breaking and superbly written book, philosopher Simon May does just that, dissecting our ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage.
Tracing over twenty-five hundred years of human thought and history, May shows how our idea of love developed from its Hebraic and Greek origins alongside Christianity until, during the last two centuries, "God is love" became "love is God"-so hubristic, so escapist, so untruthful to the real nature of love, that it has booby-trapped relationships everywhere with deluded expectations. Brilliantly, May explores the very different philosophers and writers, both skeptics and believers, who dared to think differently: from Aristotle's perfect friendship and Ovid's celebration of sex and "the chase," to Rousseau's personal authenticity, Nietzsche's affirmation, Freud's concepts of loss and mourning, and boredom in Proust. Against our belief that love is an all-powerful solution to finding meaning, security, and happiness in life, May reveals with great clarity what love actually is-and what it means.
"The most persuasive account of love's nature I have ever read." -Financial Times
"Intellectually engaging . . . Provocative." -The Wall Street Journal
Autoren-Porträt von Simon May
Simon May is visiting professor of philosophy at King's College London, and Birkbeck, University of London.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Simon May
- 2019, 313 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Yale University Press (Ignition)
- ISBN-10: 0300177232
- ISBN-13: 9780300177237
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.06.2019
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"A beautifully written and fascinating account of the cultural history of love. Simon May gives a vindication of love that is both deeply insightful and inspiring, and, whether you believe that God is love or that Love is god, you will find your portrait in this book and rejoice in it." —Roger Scruton"May's enquiry into the nature of love is an amazing tour de force: surprising, provocative, refreshing and instructive by turns, it surpasses everything hitherto written on this subject in its scope and ambition." —A.C. Grayling
"Simon May's Love is that rarest of achievements: scholarship as inspired illumination. Fluent, witty, humane, May explores Western concepts of love from the Torah to Romanticism and on to the 'fascinating paradox' that the liberation of sex and marriage in our day coexists with retrograde, and at times destructive, notions of love. May offers a corrective, and the reasoning that takes us there is an utterly riveting adventure." —Wendy Steiner, author of The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art
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