Romantic Love, a Philosophical Inquiry - Couverture rigide

Vate, Dwight Van De

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0271002883 ISBN 13 : 9780271002880

Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Romantic love is subject to the same philosophical analysis, this book shows, as any other human experience such as selfhood, good and evil, or justice—even though most philosophers have neglected it. An appropriate method of inquiry here, the author holds, "must be an ontological theory; it must evaluate the reality of love in comparison to the other things we think are real."

Part I examines the layman's conception of romantic love as a "mysterious, unanalyzable feeling." It also examines the psychologist's conception of romantic love as "an unmysterious natural phenomenon"—a drive. Part II turns to the sociologist's conception of romantic love as a social institution—"an interpersonal transaction with a social function." Part III concludes that romantic love is an objective social process which society makes possible "by granting the individual a private inner being which escapes typification by being literally unspeakable."

Written with clarity, wit, and charm, Romantic Love will appeal to all intellectually curious readers including philosophers and social scientists.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0271002883
• ISBN 13: 9780271002880
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible