\""An elegant little book...perceptive and tender\""
- Evening Standard
Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?'
Drawing on writers and thinkers as diverse as Plato, Tolstoy, Freud and Stendhal, John Armstrong explores how our perception of love is formed by culture and history.
For anyone who believes or disbelieves in love.
By:
John Armstrong Imprint: Penguin Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 197mm,
Width: 118mm,
Spine: 10mm
Weight: 126g ISBN:9780140294712 ISBN 10: 0140294716 Pages: 176 Publication Date:30 January 2003 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
"The romantic vision; ""love is really x""; love's evolution; why love has a history; the perfect union; love as education; recognition; a creative eye; possession; imagination; infatuation; blind cupid; imagination (again); categories; conflict and interpretation; the good of the other; charity; love and the meaning of life; incommensurable desires; sexuality; love's increase; maturity."
John Armstrong is the author of THE INTIMATE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE. A philosopher at the University of Melbourne
