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Love

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Love

By Simon May

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About the book

What is love's real aim? Why is it so ruthlessly selective in its choice of loved ones? Why do we love at all? In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life-as offering us a possibility of home in a world that we supremely value. He sees love as motivated by a promise of "ontological rootedness," rather than, as two thousand years of tradition variously asserts, by be...Show more

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ISBN

9780190884833

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Love

Format

Hardcover

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