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9780262195744

Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-up

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    9780262195744

  • ISBN10:

    0262195747

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-03-31
  • Publisher: Mit Pr
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Summary

"I wish this book had been available to me in my salad days, that I had read it before immersing myself in the entire trilogy. That is now what I will say to those potential students of the philosophy of love and sex who ask me where they should start. First this book, then The Nature of Love." -Alan Soble, From the Foreword In 1984, Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much acclaimed trilogy on love. Trained as an analytical philosopher, Singer first approached his subject with the tools of current philosophical methodology. Dissatisfied by the initial results (finding the chapters he had written "just dreary and unproductive of anything"), he turned to the history of ideas in philosophy and the arts for inspiration. He discovered an immensity of speculation and artistic practice that reached wholly beyond the parameters he had been trained to consider truly philosophical. In his three-volume work The Nature of Love,Singer tried to make sense of this historical progression within a framework that reflected his precise distinction-making and analytical background. In this new book, he maps the trajectory of his thinking on love. It is a "partial" summing-up of a lifework: partial because it expresses the author's still unfolding views, because it is a recapitulation of many published pages, because love-like any subject of that magnitude-resists a neatly comprehensive, all-inclusive formulation. Adopting an informal, even conversational, tone, Singer discusses, among other topics, the history of romantic love, the Platonic ideal, courtly and nineteenth-century Romantic love; the nature of passion; the concept of merging (and his critique of it); ideas about love in Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey, Santayana, Sartre, and other writers; and love in relation to democracy, existentialism, creativity, and the possible future of scientific investigation. Singer's writing on love embodies what he has learned as a contemporary philosopher, studying other authors in the field and "trying to get a little further." This book continues his trailblazing explorations. Irving Singer Library

Author Biography

Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT.

Table of Contents

Forewordp. ix
Prefatory Notep. xiii
Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Upp. 1
Is Romantic Love a Recent Idea?p. 1
Platop. 7
Beyond Idealismp. 13
Concepts of Transcendence and Mergingp. 16
Courtly Love and Its Successorsp. 28
Varieties of Romantic Lovep. 38
Identifi cation of Love and Passionp. 44
Bestowal and Appraisal in Relation to Freudp. 51
Schopenhauer and Nietzschep. 59
Implications for Marriagep. 67
Dualism and Freud on Erotic Degradationp. 73
Democracy as Related to Romanticismp. 81
Existentialismp. 86
The Love of Life: A Pluralist Perspectivep. 95
Harmonization of Dewey and Santayanap. 105
The Role of Creativityp. 112
Future Prospects for the Philosophy of Love: Science and Humanistic Studies Unitedp. 117
Indexp. 121
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