Synopses & Reviews
If there is an inherent connection between love and generosity, between love and creativeness, as this book argues there is, then how can love itself be selfish, destructive and tyrannical? Concerned with questions about love in its different forms, this book seeks and discusses the views of writers--Plato, Proust, Sartre, Freud, D. H. Lawrence, Erich Fromm, C. S. Lewis, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil and Kahlil Gibran--who have suggested distinctive solutions to the problems which love poses in the face of its obstacles. The enquiry which the book undertakes emcompasses both the conceptual and existential experience of love.
Review
"Dilman's rare combination of a keen analytical mind and a profound awareness of human experience has given us one of the better philosophical books on love."
--Choice
Synopsis
Detailed Contents Acknowledgements Preface Human Togetherness and the Reality of Other People Love and Hate: Are they Opposites? Forms of Love: Emotional Maturity and Reciprocity Conflicting Aspects of Sexual Love Revisited: Can They Be Reconciled? Proust: Sexual Love and Its Longing for Union Freud on Love and Sexuality: A Critique D.H. Lawrence: Sexual Love, a Vital Relationship Between Opposites Erich Fromm on 'Love as an Art' C.S. Lewis in Four Loves: Our Natural Loves C.S. Lewis in Four Loves: Charity and the Christian Love of God Kierkegaard on the Christian Injunction to Love One's Neighbour Kierkegaard on the Works of Love Bibliography Index
Synopsis
The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in which they stand to each other. It is concerned with the way different aspects of sexual love conflict with each other, with the way self-regard and self-interest can corrupt love, and with spiritual love and its difficulties. It seeks the views of some writers who have suggested some distinctive solutions to the existential problems that love poses in the face of its obstacles: Plato, Proust, Sartre, Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Erich Fromm, C.S. Lewis, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil and Kahlil Gibran.
Synopsis
Concerned with questions about love in its different forms, this book seeks and discusses the views of writers who have suggested distinctive solutions to the problems which love poses in the face of its obstacles.
About the Author
Ilham Dilman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea.
Table of Contents
Human Togetherness and the Reality of Other People * Love and Hate: Are they Opposites * Forms of Love: Emotional Maturity and Reciprocity * Conflicting Aspects of Sexual Love Revisited: Can They Be Reconciled * Proust: Sexual Love and its Longing for Union * Freud on Love and Sexuality: A Critique * D. H. Lawrence: Sexual Love, A Vital Relationship Between Opposites * Erich Fromm on "Love as an Art" * C. S. Lewis in Four Loves: Our Natural Loves * C. S. Lewis in Four Loves: Charity and the Christian Love of God * Kierkegaard on the Works of Love * Conclusion * Index