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9781568331669

About Love: Reinventing Romance for Our Times

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  • ISBN13:

    9781568331669

  • ISBN10:

    1568331665

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2001-04-01
  • Publisher: MADISON BOOKS INC
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Summary

This book offers insightful observations from a broad range of sources--literary, historical, and personal--to explore the volatile blend of passion, expectation, and confusion that characterizes this most exhilarating and excruciating of human passions--love.

Author Biography

Robert C. Solomon, Quincy Lee Centennial Professor of Business and Philosophy and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin

Table of Contents

Preface to the Madison Books editionp. 11
Introduction: Reinventing Lovep. 13
The Foggers and the Facilitatorsp. 20
A Theory of Lovep. 23
The Elusive Emotion
The Critical Questionp. 31
"I Love You"p. 35
Love and Reciprocityp. 38
Romantic Lovep. 42
Other Culturesp. 48
The History of Lovep. 54
Love as Identityp. 62
The Paradox of Lovep. 64
Getting Clear (About Love)
Is Love a Feeling?p. 76
Love and Relationshipsp. 82
All or Nothing: The Idealization of Lovep. 88
Love Storiesp. 97
Beauty as the Basis of Lovep. 103
Beyond Romeo and Juliet: Love Among the Elderlyp. 117
"Falling in Love"
Love and its Vicissitudes: "The Real Thing"p. 129
The Joys of Sexp. 134
Love at First Sightp. 140
The Perils and Pleasures of Romantic Attraction: Why We Fall in Lovep. 147
Reasons for Lovep. 153
Love and Fantasyp. 160
From Falling to Being in Love: The Coordination Problemp. 168
Sleeping Together: Snugglers and Solipsistsp. 174
Loving and in Lovep. 179
The Self in Love
The Identity Theory of Lovep. 194
The Indeterminacy of the Selfp. 199
The Romantic Creation of the Selfp. 204
Sex and the Shared Selfp. 209
The Importance of Privacyp. 217
Romantic Rolesp. 223
The Dimensions of Identity ("Do Opposites Attract?")p. 231
Private Virtuesp. 238
From Dialectic to Dynamicsp. 249
The Dynamics of Love: Making Love Last
Caring and the Myth of Selfishnessp. 255
Love and Timep. 262
Intimacyp. 272
Equality and the Problem of Powerp. 283
Possession and Possessivenessp. 300
The Importance of Fights in Lovep. 310
Friendship as the Foundation of Lovep. 313
The Meaning of Fidelityp. 323
The Waning of Love, and Keeping Love Alivep. 329
Reinventing Lovep. 343
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