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Author Ferry, Luc

Title On Love : a Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
Published Oxford : Wiley, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (192 pages)
Contents COVER; Contents; Preface; Introduction: A Brief History of the Meaning of Life; 1: The Revolution of Love: A New Principle of Meaning; 2: Politics at the Dawn of a New Era: From the Revolution of Love to Care for the Fate of Future Generations; 3: On the Spiritual in Art and Education; Conclusion: Death, the Only Objection? Love, a Utopia?; Index
Summary All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them. But there is another value, rooted in the birth of the modern family and in the passage from traditional to modern marriage, that has transformed our lives in profound and often unrecognized ways: love. It affects not only our personal lives but many aspects of our social and collective life too, from art and education to politics. In this book Luc Ferry shows how the quiet r
Subject Love -- Philosophy -- 21st century
Humanism.
humanism.
Humanism
Love -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780745678870
0745678874