The Meaning of Love

by Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov

Book Overview

"The meaning and worth of love as a feeling is that it really forces us, with all our being, to acknowledge for another the same absolute significance that, because of the power of egoism, we are conscious of only in our own selves. Love is important, not only as one of our feelings but as the transfer of all our interest in life from ourselves to another, as the shifting of the very center of our lives....

"The meaning of human love, speaking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0940262185
• ISBN13: 9780940262188
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A MUST READ!!!

This book is an excellent read for anyone even remotely interested in Russian thought, Eastern Orthodoxy, metaphysics, sexual love, and pretty much a host of other topics. Soloviev, a brilliant Russian Orthodox philosopher of the late 19th century, covers a lot of ground in this little book. Love is held up as the shatterer of egoism and the means by which an individual becomes a microcosm of the "all-unity" of the cosmos, uniting all the elements of the world together within himself, and thereby becoming an absolutely unique, absolutely valuable individual who transcends the laws of nature and overcomes death and decay. For anyone who suspects that love is about more than just mutual affection, more than just economics, more than just childbearing--that love is intimately connected to the fundamental truth of all being--then this book simply cannot be passed up. Even if you end up not agreeing with its conclusions (which are admittedly extremely foreign to Western mindsets), you'll nevertheless be moved by the beautiful vision of love and metaphysics that Soloviev presents.

Solovyov, transference and the Grail search.

If you are searching for the Grail in the mystical experience of love and the transference, this is the book for you. The title says it all. Solovyov explores and uncovers the reason there is such archetypal emotional power in love even though the divine, cosmic source is not consciously recognized and understood. It is the failure to recognize the source behind the emotion which results in such tragic disillusion and despair. Finding the true source can be - should be life transforming.