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Love

Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes

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  1. İlham Dilman
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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Human Togetherness and the Reality of Other People

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    Pages 1-12

  3. Love and Hate: Are They Opposites?

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    Pages 13-23

  4. Forms of Love: Emotional Maturity and Reciprocity

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    Pages 24-40

  5. Conflicting Aspects of Sexual Love Revisited: Can They Be Reconciled?

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    Pages 41-59

  6. Proust: Sexual Love and its Longing for Union

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    Pages 60-73

  7. Freud on Love and Sexuality: a Critique

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    Pages 74-97

  8. D.H. Lawrence: Sexual Love, A Vital Relationship Between Opposites

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    Pages 98-116

  9. Erich Fromm on ‘Love as an Art’

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    Pages 117-137

  10. C.S. Lewis in Four Loves: Our Natural Loves

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    Pages 138-154

  11. C.S. Lewis in Four Loves: Charity and the Christian Love of God

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    Pages 155-171

  12. Kierkegaard on the Christian Injunction to Love One’s Neighbour

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    Pages 172-198

  13. Kierkegaard on the Works of Love

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    Pages 199-233

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 234-239
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About this book

The book is concerned with questions about love: questions about its many forms, strands and aspects, and the relation in which they stand to each other. It is concerned with the way different aspects of sexual love conflict with each other, with the way self-regard and self-interest can corrupt love, and with spiritual love and its difficulties. It seeks the views of some writers who have suggested some distinctive solutions to the existential problems that love poses in the face of its obstacles: Plato, Proust, Sartre, Freud, D.H. Lawrence, Erich Fromm, C.S. Lewis, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil and Kahlil Gibran.

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"Dilman's rare combination of a keen analytical mind and a profound awareness of human experience has given us one of the better philosophical books on love." - Choice

About the author

ILHAM DILMAN is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of numerous philosophical books, including Morality and the Inner Life, A Study in Plato's Gorgias (1979), Quine on Ontology, Necessity and Experience (1984), A Trilogy of Freud: Freud and Human Nature (1983), Freud and the Mind (1984), Freud, Insight and Change (1988), Love and Human Separatenes (1987), Existentialist Critiques of Cartesianism (1993), Language and Reality: Modern Perspectives on Wittgenstein (1988).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Love

  • Book Subtitle: Its Forms, Dimensions and Paradoxes

  • Authors: İlham Dilman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379565

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: ?lham Dilman 1998

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-312-21643-6Published: 11 January 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-40834-4Published: 01 January 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37956-5Published: 13 January 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 239

  • Topics: Ethics, Social Philosophy

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