| Description |
xxxv, 347 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Preface : "falling in" love -- Introduction : romantic love -- Part I. Emotion, myth and metaphor -- 1. In the beginning, the word -- 2. Models and metaphors : "the game of love" -- 3. What I feel in my heart -- 4. Love is an emotion -- 5. Feelings -- 6. On the (alleged) origins of romantic love -- 7. The myth of Platonic love : eros bloated and sex demeaned -- 8. Enter the cynic -- 9. How do I love thee? : let me measure something -- 10. What do I want when I want you? : an introduction to two metaphysics -- Part II. Love : a theory -- 11. What love is : the loveworld -- 12. Self, love, and self-love -- 13. Why do I love you? -- 14. "The most wonderful person in the world" (fantasies versus illusions) -- 15. "I'll be your slave" (if only you get up on that pedestal) -- 16. "Why not get another girl?" -- 17. Decisions, decisions (and "committment") -- 18. "I-love-you" -- 19. The importance of being honest -- 20. Behind closed doors : love, sex and intimacy -- 21. Love and the test of time ("dialectic") -- 22. Beyond sex and gender (love and feminism) -- 23. What's so good about love (love and self-esteem) -- Epilogue : Romeo's revenge, Plato's Symposium, revisited |
| Notes |
Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor/Doubleday, 1981 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Love.
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| LC no. |
89039922 |
| ISBN |
0879755695 (paperback) |
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