The nature of love, 2: Courtly and romantic

This second volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. The author analyzes the transition from courtly to Romantic love by ref...

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Main Author: Singer, Irving
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press 2009
Series:[Irving Singer library]
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Summary:This second volume of the author's trilogy 'The Nature of Love' studies the ideas and ideals of medieval courtly love and nineteenth-century Romantic love, as well as the transition between these two perspectives. The author analyzes the transition from courtly to Romantic love by reference to the writings of many artists beginning with Dante and ending with Richard Wagner, as well as Neoplatonist philosophers of the Italian Renaissance, Descartes, Spinoza, Rousseau, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer
Item Description:Originally published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994-1987. - Print version cataloged as a monographic set by Library of Congress
ISBN:9780262315128
0262315122