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By Irving Singer,Alan Soble

In 1984, Irving Singer released the 1st quantity of what may develop into a vintage and masses acclaimed trilogy on love. educated as an analytical thinker, Singer first approached his topic with the instruments of present philosophical method. disenchanted through the preliminary effects (finding the chapters he had written "just dreary and unproductive of anything"), he grew to become to the heritage of rules in philosophy and the humanities for notion. He found an immensity of hypothesis and creative perform that reached thoroughly past the parameters he have been educated to contemplate really philosophical. In his three-volume paintings The Nature of Love, Singer attempted to make feel of this old development inside of a framework that mirrored his detailed distinction-making and analytical heritage. during this new ebook, he maps the trajectory of his considering on love. it's a "partial" summing-up of a lifework: partial since it expresses the author's nonetheless unfolding perspectives, since it is a recapitulation of many released pages, simply because love -- like all topic of that importance -- resists a smartly finished, all-inclusive formula. Adopting a casual, even conversational, tone, Singer discusses, between different issues, the historical past of romantic love, the Platonic excellent, courtly and nineteenth-century Romantic love; the character of ardour; the idea that of merging (and his critique of it); rules approximately love in Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey, Santayana, Sartre, and different writers; and love relating to democracy, existentialism, creativity, and the potential way forward for medical research. Singer's writing on love embodies what he has discovered as a modern thinker, learning different authors within the box and "trying to get a bit further." This e-book keeps his trailblazing explorations.

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