Love: A Very Short Introduction

Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford, 2015

019966384X / 9780199663842

Serie: Libro 81 de 344 - Very Short Introductions

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Although there are many kinds of love, erotic love has been celebrated in art and poetry as life's most rewarding and exalting experience, worth living and dying for and bringing out the best in ourselves. And yet it has excused, and even been thought to justify, the most reprehensible crimes. Why should this be? This Very Short Introduction explores this and other puzzling questions. Do we love someone for their virtue, their beauty, or their moral or other qualities? Are love's characteristic desires altruistic or selfish? Are there duties of love? What do the sciences - neuroscience, evolutionary and social psychology, and anthropology - tell us about love? Many of the answers we give to such questions are determined not so much by the facts of human nature as by the ideology of love. Ronald de Sousa considers some of the many paradoxes raised by love, looking at the different kinds of love - affections, affiliation, philia, storage, agape, but focusses on eros, or romantic love. He considers whether our conventional beliefs about love and sex are deeply irrational and argues that alternative conceptions of love and sex, although hard to formulate and live by, may be worth striving for. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Título
Love: A Very Short Introduction
Autor
Ronald de Sousa (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, University of Toronto)
Editorial
Oxford University Press, United Kingdom, Oxford
Año de publicación
2015
Estado
Very Good
Encuadernación
Paperback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
019966384X
ISBN 13
9780199663842
Peso del artículo
141 gramos
Dimensiones
114.0 x 174.0
Serie
Libro 81 de 344: Very Short Introductions

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