Erotic Love in Sociology, Philosophy and Literature: From Romanticism to Rationality

by Finn Bowring

Book Overview

Why is 'love' taken for granted as a part of human experience? And why is sexual or romantic love in particular so important to us? This book aims to find out, tracing the intellectual history of sexual love, from the ancient Greeks to the modern day.

Erotic Love shows how discourses of love have intersected with social and cultural trends, as well as with personal events and experiences. Beginning with the queering of love in Greek...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350092223
• ISBN13: 9781350092228
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"