The Nature of Love

Plato to Luther

Irving Singer, Irving Singer

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
20 February 2009

Philosophy; Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500; Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600

Series: The Irving Singer Library

An analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers that include Plato, Ovid, and Martin Luther.

Irving Singer's trilogyThe Nature of Lovehas been called ""majestic"" (New York Times Book Review), ""monumental"" (Boston Globe), ""one of the major works of philosophy in our century"" (Nous), ""wise and magisterial"" (Times Literary Supplement), and a ""masterpiece of critical thinking

that

is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round"" (Christian Science Monitor).

In the first volume, Singer begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization. He then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther. After having described the nature of erotic idealization, Singer analyzes the religious idealization in Judeo-Christian concepts of eros, philia, nomos, and agape. Medieval Catholicism sought to combine these four ideas of love in the ""caritas synthesis."" Luther repudiated that attempt on the grounds that love exists only in God's agapastic bestowal of unlimited goodness upon humanity and all of nature. In relation to the different modes of theorizing, Singer explores the humanistic implications of each.

By: Irving Singer
Series edited by: Irving Singer
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780262512725
ISBN 10: 0262512726
Series: The Irving Singer Library
Pages: 404
Publication Date: 20 February 2009
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. In addition to his two trilogies, The Nature of Love and Meaning in Life, he is the author of many other books, including the recent Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up, and four books on film aesthetics, Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique; Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir; Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity; and Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film, all published by the MIT Press.

Reviews for The Nature of Love: Plato to Luther

"""Majestic."" -- New York Times Book Review ""Monumental."" -- Boston Globe ""Wise and magisterial."" -- Times Literary Supplement ""One of the major works of philosophy in our century."" -- Nous"