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Love A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

Paperback • 2022 • English

Love A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

By Simon May

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About the book

What is love's real intent? Why can love be so ruthlessly selective? How is it related to sex, beauty, and goodness? And is the child now the supreme object of love? 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, ...Show more

Narrative theme: Love and relationships
Social and ethical issues
Health, illness and addiction: social aspects

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9780197650530

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2022

Language

English

Original title

Love A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

Format

Paperback

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