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Robert C. Salomon

Most of all, however, it is necessary to open up the ancient question What is love?' and come up with an answer that is something more than mere feeling, physical attraction and the desire for constant companionship — a renewed concept of romance that is appropriate for our times." Love. It is the most talked about of all human experiences. We exult in it, yearn for it, avoid it. It is familiar to all of us — a miracle that happens all the time, and yet one as misunderstood as the great mysteries of the universe. It has been written about through the ages by philosophers and bards, scientists and balladeers. But rarely is there an author of insight who captures, truly captures what love is all about. Now, Robert Solomon, in a brilliant and illuminating work, tells us About Love. Here is a book that recalls the very best writing on this elusive subject, offering a bold new way of considering love and affirming its possibilities in our dissolute and jaundiced era. In these pages, Solomon explains simply what it is, after all, that happens when a man and woman fall in love. About Love gives a refreshingly reasonable and engagingly readable study of the phenomenon of romantic love: how it develops, how it works, and why, on occasion, it doesn't work. What special difficulties and rewards exist in contemporary relationships? Solomon surprises us over and over again with the unspoken wisdom of everyday lovers and the sometimes stunning lack of insight of our greatest thinkers on the myriad topics involved in the experience of love. Offering a perceptive look at a broad range of literary, historical, and personal sources, Solomon explores the crucial ingredients of time and sex in romance, and discusses whether love "at first sight" is possible, whether love that lasts a lifetime is probable. For those in love, for those out of love, for those who think "If I could only find love, I would be happy," About Love speaks forthrightly on that most exhilarating and excruciating of human passions.

Idioma Inglés
Publicación 1988
Editorial Simon & Schuster
Categoría Filosofía


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