01877nam a2200313 a 4500 ebr10482349 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 101201s2011 ctu sb 001 0 eng d 2010049424 9780300118308 9780300177237 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)740447233 BD436 .M375 2011eb 128/.4609 22 May, Simon (Simon Philip Walter) Love [electronic resource] : a history / Simon May. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011. xiv, 294 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. Love plays God -- The foundation of Western love : Hebrew scripture -- From physical desire to paradise : Plato -- Love as perfect friendship : Aristotle -- Love as sexual desire : Lucretius and Ovid -- Love as the supreme virtue : Christianity -- Why Christian love isn't unconditional -- Women on top : love and the troubadours -- How human nature became loveable : from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- Love as joyful understanding of the whole : Spinoza -- Love as enlightened romanticism : Rousseau -- Love as religion : Schlegel and Novalis -- Love as the urge to procreate : Schopenhauer -- Love as affirmation of life : Nietzsche -- Love as a history of loss : Freud -- Love as terror and tedium : Proust -- Love reconsidered. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Love History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10482349 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 122148 122148