In The Not-Two, Lorenzo Chiesa examines the treatment of logic and God in Lacan's later work. Chiesa draws for the most part from Lacan's Seminars of the early 1970s, as they revolve around the axiom "There is no sexual relationship." Chiesa provides both a close reading of Lacan's effort to formalize sexual difference as incompleteness and an assessment of its broader implications for philosop…
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,…
An acclaimed philosopher offers a systematic mapping of the various facets of love.In his widely acclaimed trilogy The Nature of Love, Irving Singer traced the development of the concept of love in history and literature from the Greeks to the twentieth century. In this second volume of his Meaning in Life trilogy, Singer returns to the subject of his earlier work, exploring a different approac…
An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
A long-term study providing rare insights into the precarious career and ordinary working culture of professional footballers. Away from the celebrity-obsessed media gaze, the work of a professional footballer is rarely glamorous and for most players a career in football is insecure and short-lived. A former professional, Martin Roderick’s familiarity with the world of football is the foundat…
A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture--opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression--obscures the deep connections …