The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love

The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love

Paperback (14 Jun 1991)

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Publisher's Synopsis

What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword to this volume, "how incorrigibly stiff philosophy is when it undertakes to lay its icy fingers on the frilled and beating wings of the butterfly of love."Love, elusive and philosophically intractable as it is, has long fascinated philosophers. In this collection of classic and modern writings on the topic of erotic love, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers writing today.The result is a broadly conceived, comprehensive, and important work, nearly as stimulating and provocative as love itself. It examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of the wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and continue to bring, to the study of love.

Book information

ISBN: 9780700604807
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Imprint: University Press of Kansas
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 448
Weight: 734g
Height: 231mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 27mm