The Nature of Love

The Modern World

Irving Singer, Irving Singer

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English

Massachusetts Inst of Tec
27 February 2009

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

Series: The Irving Singer Library

The final volume of Singer's trilogy discusses ideas about love in the work of writers ranging from Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy to Freud, Proust, D. H. Lawrence, Shaw, and others in the contemporary world.

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 third volume, Singer examines the pervasive dialectic between optimistic idealism and pessimistic realism in modern thinking about the nature of love. He begins by discussing ""anti-Romantic Romantics"" (focusing on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy), influential nineteenth-century thinkers whose views illustrate much of the ambiguity and self-contradiction that permeate thinking about love in the last hundred years. He offers detailed studies of Freud, Proust, Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, and Santayana, and he maps the ideas about love in Continental existentialism, particularly those of Sartre and de Beauvoir. Singer finally envisages a future of cooperation between pluralistic humanists and empirical scientists. This last volume of Singer's trilogy does not pretend to offer the final word on the subject, any more than do most of the philosophers he discusses, but his masterful work can take its place beside their earlier investigations into these vast and complex questions.

By: Irving Singer
Series edited by: Irving Singer
Imprint: Massachusetts Inst of Tec
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 03
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780262512749
ISBN 10: 0262512742
Series: The Irving Singer Library
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 27 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: The Modern World

"""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"