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By Paul A. Kottman

Rather than see love as a typical type of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a tradition that adjustments over the years in which new social realities are introduced into being. Love brings approximately, and is helping us to provide an explanation for, monstrous social-historical shifts—from the increase of feminism and the emergence of bourgeois relations existence, to the struggles for abortion rights and contraception and the erosion of a gender-based department of work. Drawing on Hegel, Paul A. Kottman argues that love generates and explains accelerated chances for freely lived lives. via prepared interpretations of the easiest recognized philosophical and literary depictions of its topic—including Shakespeare, Plato, Nietzsche, Ovid, Flaubert, and Tolstoy—his booklet treats love as a basic approach that we people make feel of temporal switch, specifically the inevitability of loss of life and the propagation of life.

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