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Philosophy Of Love - A Partial Summing-Up

by Irving Singer

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 Intends to map the trajectory of the author's thinking on love. This title discusses the history of romantic love, the Platonic ideal, courtly and nineteenth-century Romantic love; the nature of passion; the concept of merging; and, ideas about love in Freud, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Dewey, Santayana, Sartre, and other writers.
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Nature Of Love - The Modern World

by Irving Singer

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 The final volume of Singer''s trilogy discusses ideas about love in the work of writers ranging from Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy to Freud, Proust, D. H. Lawrence, Shaw, and others in the contemporary world.Irving Singer''s trilogy The Nature of Love has been called "majestic" (New York Times Book Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Nous), "wise and magisterial" (Times Literary Supplement), and a "masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round" (Christian Science Monitor).In the third volume, Singer examines the pervasive dialectic between optimistic idealism and pessimistic realism in modern thinking about the nature of love. He begins by discussing "anti-Romantic Romantics" (focusing on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy), influential nineteenth-century thinkers whose views illustrate much of the ambiguity and self-contradiction that permeate thinking about love in the last hundred years. He offers detailed studies of Freud, Proust, Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, and Santayana, and he maps the ideas about love in Continental existentialism, particularly those of Sartre and de Beauvoir. Singer finally envisages a future of cooperation between pluralistic humanists and empirical scientists. This last volume of Singer''s trilogy does not pretend to offer the final word on the subject, any more than do most of the philosophers he discusses, but his masterful work can take its place beside their earlier investigations into these vast and complex questions.
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Nature Of Love - Courtly And Romantic

by Irving Singer

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 An examination of ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and the transition into later Romantic love, analyzing the work of Dante, Shakespeare, and Schopenhauer, among many others.Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Nous), "wise and magisterial" (Times Literary Supplement), and a "masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round" (Christian Science Monitor). In the second volume, Singer studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. According to the traditions of courtly love in the twelfth century and thereafter, not only God but also human beings in themselves are capable of authentic love. The pursuit of love between man and woman was seen as a splendid ideal that ennobles both the lover and the beloved. It was something more than libidinal sexuality and involved sophisticated and highly refined courtliness that emulated religious love in its ability to create a holy union between the participants. Adherents to Romantic love in later centuries, affirmed the capacity of love to effect a merging between two people who thus became one. Singer analyzes the transition from courtly to Romantic by reference to the writings of many artists beginning with Dante and ending with Richard Wagner, as well as Neoplatonist philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer. In relation to romanticism itself, he distinguishes between two aspects—"benign romanticism" and "Romantic pessimism"—that took on renewed importance in the twentieth century.
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Nature Of Love - Plato To Luther

by Irving Singer

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 An analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers that include Plato, Ovid, and Martin Luther.Irving Singer''s trilogy The Nature of Love has been called "majestic" (New York Times Book Review), "monumental" (Boston Globe), "one of the major works of philosophy in our century" (Nous), "wise and magisterial" (Times Literary Supplement), and a "masterpiece of critical thinking [that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round" (Christian Science Monitor).In the first volume, Singer begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization. He then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther. After having described the nature of erotic idealization, Singer analyzes the religious idealization in Judeo-Christian concepts of eros, philia, nomos, and agape. Medieval Catholicism sought to combine these four ideas of love in the "caritas synthesis." Luther repudiated that attempt on the grounds that love exists only in God''s agapastic bestowal of unlimited goodness upon humanity and all of nature. In relation to the different modes of theorizing, Singer explores the humanistic implications of each.
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Cinematic Mythmaking - Philosophy In Film

by Irving Singer

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 Contains mythic themes and philosophical probing in film, as seen in works of Preston Sturges, Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick, and various other filmmakers. This book explores the hidden and overt use of myth in various films and, in general, the philosophical elements of a film's meaning.
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Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher - Reflections On His Creativity

by Irving Singer

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 Covers the development of themes, motifs, and techniques in Bergman's films, from the first intimations in the early work to the consummate resolutions in the final movies. This book traces throughout the evolution of Bergman's ideas about life and death, and about the possibility of happiness and interpersonal love.
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Meaning In Life - The Harmony Of Nature And Spirit

by Irving Singer

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 An acclaimed philosopher suggests that the art of living well employs the same principles as those that exist in all artistic creativity.
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Meaning In Life - The Pursuit Of Love

by Irving Singer

92,75€ + 10% CARD

 An acclaimed philosopher offers a systematic mapping of the various facets of love.
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Meaning In Life - The Creation Of Value

by Irving Singer

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 An acclaimed philosopher views the search for meaning in life as the search for a mode of creativity that will make our lives meaningful.
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The Nature Of Love - The Modern World

by Irving Singer

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Philosophy Of Love - A Partial Summing-Up

by Alan Soble e Irving Singer

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 The author of the classic philosophical treatment of love reflects on the trajectory, over decades, of his thoughts on love and other topics.
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New Men - Manliness In Early America

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 Considers the conditions of early America which shaped and were shaped by ideals of masculinity

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