Love's Confusions.

Reeve, C. D. C.:

ISBN 10: 0415593905 / ISBN 13: 9780415593908

Published by Cambridge ; London : Harvard University Press, 2005

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VIII, 200 p. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Overall very good and clean. - LOVE S CONFUSIONS ARE LEGION. We promise to love, but we cannot love at will. Love God, we re commanded, but we cannot love on command. And given the vicissitudes of self-love, even if we could love our neighbors as we love ourselves, would it be a good thing to do so? These are a few of the paradoxes that typically lead philosophers to oversimplify love and that draw C. D. C. Reeve to explore it in all its complexity, searching for the lessons to be found within love s confusions themselves. Ranging from Plato, who wrote so eloquently on the subject, to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. As he explores the origins of Western thought on the subject, he also turns to the origins of individual experience the relationship of mother and child, the template of all the many varieties of love and to the views of such theorists as Freud, Melanie Klein, and Carol Gilligan. At the same time, he uses the story of the prototypical absent father, Odysseus, to demonstrate the importance of reconciling a desire for tenderness with a desire for strength if we are to make the most of love s potential. Looking at love in light of the classical world and Christianity, and in its complex relationship with pornography, violence, sadomasochism, fantasy, sentimentality, and jealousy, Reeve invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably occur to be creative rather than disturbing. - C. D. C. Reeve is Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. ISBN 9780415593908 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 675 Original cloth with dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love's Confusions.
• Publisher: Cambridge ; London : Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415593905
• ISBN 13: 9780415593908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Weight: 675 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophie

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Synopsis

When this work was first published in 1966, there was much interest in various types of commodity agreements and compensatory financing as methods of reducing the effects of export fluctuations on the economies of developing countries. The book concluded that short term fluctuations in export earnings, though perhaps important for some countries, did not appear to be the general problem that had been assumed. If correct, it would suggest that any measures should be carefully designed to fit the situations of countries that were affected and be subjected to cost-benefit analysis. This led to many published and unpublished studies on the issues: some supported, others contradicted the book’s conclusions. The data available now are vastly greater and probably more accurate than pre-1966. However, the work and the issues it raised remain important because most schemes proposed to reduce export instability would be costly and likely to divert resources from uses more obviously aimed at raising economic development in most developing countries.

About the Author

Alasdair Macbean