Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.This third volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' examines the pervasive dialectic between optimistic idealism and pessimistic realism in modern thinking about the nature of love. The author offers detailed studies of Freud, Proust, Shaw, D.H. L…
Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.This second volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. The author analyzes the transition from cour…
Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987.Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress.This first volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization, and then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine,…