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Ranging from Plato to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, and Lawrence, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. He invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing.

Table of Contents:
1. Agape, Eros, and the Will 1 2. Seeing, Improvising, and Self-Love 15 3. First Love and After 36 4. Anxiety and the Ethics of Intimacy 58 5. Jealousy, Perversity, and Other Liabilities of Love 77 6. Sentimentality and the Gift of the Self 92 7. Lebensraum, Desire, and the Envy of Eternity 105 8. Violence, Pornography, and Sadomasochism 125 9. Work and/as Love 146 10. Sex, Democracy, and the Future of Love 167 Notes 179 Acknowledgments 199 Index 201

About the Author :
C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Review :
Understanding the persistence of the past is only the first of the rewards of Love's Confusions. Reeve is also good--good enough to make an honest reader squirm, at times--on anxiety, envy, jealousy, sentimentality, narcissism, and pornography. And it's a pleasure watching him engage with great texts, not only of philosophy--Plato's Symposium, Augustine (there's a thrilling description of orgasm from The City of God), Kant, Kierkegaard, Iris Murdoch--but also literature: Homer (Reeve astutely explains why Odysseus gave up Calypso to return to Penelope, which many a shallow male, including this writer, has undoubtedly asked himself), Proust (of course), Junichiro Tanizaki, Philip Larkin, Milan Kundera, and Norman Rush's magnificent Mortals. -- George Scialabba Boston Globe 20050206 Love's Confusions takes the reader on a meandering journey with no clear goal but with a lot of learning and discovery along the way. It teases, it entices, it turns your head inside out, and it's a hell of a ride. In that regard, it's a lot like love itself. -- Clark Humphrey Seattle Times 20050603 Love's Confusions testifies to our capacity for learning from the pains and pleasures of love. -- Tom D'Evelyn Providence Journal 20050807


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674042612
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 224
  • ISBN-10: 0674042611
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English


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