Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

by Simon May

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197650538
• ISBN13: 9780197650530
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"