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  Title

  The curious history of love

  Author

  Kaufmann, Jean-Claude.  

  Publisher:

  Polity Press,

  Pub date:

  2011.

  Pages:

  178 p. ;

  ISBN:

  0745651542

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Aurora Campus.
  

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    Aurora Campus	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    BF575 .L8 K37 2011	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0745651542 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  9780745651545 (pbk.)

  ISBN:

  0745651534 (hbk.)

  ISBN:

  9780745651538 (hbk.)

  Personal Author:

  Kaufmann, Jean-Claude.

  Uniform title:

  [Etrange histoire de l'amour heureux. English]

  Title:

  The curious history of love / Jean-Claude Kaufmann ; [translated] by David Macey.

  Edition:

  English ed.

  Publication info:

  Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2011.

  Physical description:

  178 p. ; 23 cm.

  General Note:

  Originally published in French: 2009.

  Contents:

  Introduction ---- 1. Where does love come from? --- 2. At the crossroads --- 3. Love's revolutionaries --- 4. Enter the happy couple --- 5. In search of happiness ---- Conclusion.

  Summary:

  The one emotion that matters most to many people is the one about which social thinkers rarely speak - love. For many people, love is the thing that matters most in their lives: they are searching for love, hoping to find in love a kind of happiness that they cannot find in their work or by surrounding themselves with material goods. But where does this peculiar and powerful blending together of love and happiness come from, and why do we find it such a compelling idea today? In this short book Jean-Claude Kaufmann offers a fresh account of the history of a feeling unlike any other. The modern idea of love as passion was born in the 12th century but it was marginalized by the rise of a kind of instrumental, calculating reason that became increasingly central to modern societies. As calculating reason began to encroach on the personal domain, many individuals sought to escape from it, searching for happiness elsewhere. As our societies become dominated by calculating reason and selfish individualism, we search elsewhere for the kind of happy love that will heal all our wounds. This is why we experience so many changes of heart in our personal lives: at times we are coldly calculating and then, a few moments later, we sacrifice ourselves to love without a second thought. -- Book cover.

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  AURORA

  Subject term:

  Love.

  Subject term:

  Man-woman relationships.

  Subject term:

  Happiness.

  Added Entry-Personal Name:

  Macey, David, 1949-2011,

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