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Love Analyzed
by Roger E. Lamb. 268 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

About the Contributors

1: Love and the Individual: Romantic Rightness and Platonic Aspiration

2: Love and Rationality

3: The Right Method of Boy-Loving

4: Union, Autonomy, and Concern

5: Love and Human Bondage in Maugham, Spinoza, and Freud

6: Love and Autonomy

7: Love and Solipsism

8: Love and Its Place in Moral Discourse

9: Jealousy and Desire

10: Love Undigitized

11: Is Love an Emotion?

12: Love and Intentionality: Roxane's Choice

13: Love's Truths

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Eros, Agape, and Philia: Readings in the Philosophy of Love
by Alan Soble. 308 pgs.

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ALSO BY ALAN SOBLE

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PREFACE

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE

NOTES

Section I: WHERE WE ARE

NOTES

On Falling in Love

Women, Men, and Intimacy

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Love in a Sexist Society

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SUGGESTED READINGS, SECTION I

Section II: CLASSICAL SOURCES

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Socrates Speaks at a Banquet

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Perfect Friendship

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Sexuality and Love

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SUGGESTED READINGS, SECTION II

Section III: EXPLORING THE CLASSICS

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Agape and Eros

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The Individual as an Object of Love in Plato

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APPENDIX

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

ABBREVIATIONS

GLOSSARY FOR VLASTOS

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SECTION C: APPENDIX

The Nature of Love

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Platonic Love

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GREEK GLOSSARY FOR KOSMAN

Friends as Ends in Themselves

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SUGGESTED READINGS, SECTION III

Section IV: CONTEMPORARY ANALYSIS

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A Conceptual Investigation of Love

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The Phenomena of Love and Hate

Marital Faithfulness

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The Commandability of Pathological Love

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Personal Love

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Sex, Love, and Justice: a Problem in Moral Education

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SUGGESTED READINGS, SECTION IV

APPENDIX: DISCUSSION MATERIAL

For Anne Gregory

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What is the Self?

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Two Love Sonnets

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Of Friendship

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Letter to Chanut

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A Love Sonnet

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The Wisdom of Love
by Alain Finkielkraut, Kevin O'Neill, David Suchoff. 158 pgs.

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Introduction by David Suchoff

Acknowledgments

Preface

1: The Encounter with the Other

2: The Beloved Face

3: Face and True Face

4: Breaking the World's Spell

5: The Test of the Neighbor

6: Who is the Other?

Notes

Index
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Anatomy of Love: The Natural History of Monogamy, Adultery, and Divorce
by Helen E. Fisher. 431 pgs.

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To the Reader: a "Way of Seeing"

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1: Courting

2: Infatuation

3: Of Human Bondlelno

4: Why Adultery?

5: Blueprint for Divorce

6: When Wild in Woods the Noble Savage Ran

7: Out of Eden

8: Eros

9: The Siren's Weh

10: Why Can't a Man Be More like a Woman?

11: Women, Men, and Power

12: Almost Human

13: The First Affluent Society

14: Fickle Passion

15: Till Death Us Do Part

16: Future Sex

Notes

Appendix: Divorce Charts

Bibliography

Index
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Measurement of Love and Intimate Relations: Theories, Scales, and Applications for Love Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution
by Oliver C. S. Tzeng. 306 pgs.

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This is the most comprehensive state-of-the-art work on the measurement of love. It includes descriptions of a theoretical paradigm and two love models, a common mythological framework for theory development and evaluation, an introduction to over 40 theories for love development, maintenance, and dissolution, the integration of research principles and strategies, the compilation of 26 popularly used scales, and illustrations of three empirical research programs in measuring love and intimate relations. This book complements Tzeng's most recent work, Theories of Love Development, Maintenance, and Dissolution.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction

Part I: Theoretical Foundations

A Common Methodological Framework for Love Research in Theory Development, Measurement, and Evaluation

The Psychosemantic Paradigm and Its Love Models:: A Theoretical Content Framework for Studies of Love

Summary of Octagonal Stages and Love Theorizations

Part II: Measurement and Empirical Studies of Love

Psychometric Theories, Techniques, and Considerations

Measurement Scales for Eight Octagonal Stages

Folk Theory of Love and Intimate Relations

7: Cross-Scale and Cross-Construct Comparisons in Love Measurements

Development of Psychovector Love Scale and Its Differentiability

Part III: Summary, Discussions, and Applications

Summary and Applications

References

Index

About the Author
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The Mind and the Heart of Love, Lion and Unicorn: A Study in Eros and Agape
by M. C. D'Arcy. 333 pgs.

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Preface

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Introduction

Chapter One: Courtly and Passionate Love

Appendix I -- to First Chapter

Appendix Two -- Gnosticism

Chapter Two: Eros and Christian Theology

Appendix One

Appendix Two -- Caritas

Chapter Three: The Problem of Self-Centred Love

Appendix. -- on Pure or Unselfish Love

Chapter Four: Friendship

Chapter Five: Reason and Will

Chapter Six: Love and the Self

Appendix. -- Love and Self Individual and Person

Chapter Seven: Animus and Anima

Chapter Eight: Recapitulation

Chapter Nine: Love and Sympathy

Chapter Ten: Sacrifice

Chapter Eleven: Philosophical Background

Chapter Twelve: Philosophical Background (Cont.)

Chapter Thirteen: Personality

Appendix. -- the View of St. Thomas Aquinas On The Relation of Love and Intellect

Chapter Fourteen: Human and Divine

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On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme
by Ortega Y Gasset, Toby Talbot. 205 pgs.

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I: Features Of Love

II: Love In Stendhal

III: The Role of Choice In Love

IV: Thoughts on Standing Before The Marquesa De Santillana's Portrait

V: Landscape with A Deer in the Background

VI: Portrait Of Salome

VII: Toward a Psychology Of The Interesting Man

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Problems in Falling in Love, in Psychoanalytic Quarterly
by Lewisa Kirshner. 19 pgs.

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Romantic Love and Sexual Behavior: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
by Victor C. De Munck. 314 pgs.

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Westerners believe that love makes life worth living; that sex is a natural desire different in kind from love; and that only cynics reduce our love life to a calculation of economic or genetic factors. In this volume, essays explore these and other assumptions about the relationship between romantic love and sex. This represents the first interdisciplinary social science study of love and sex.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

References

Section I: Theory

1: The Future of Love

2: Ideologies of Lovestyle and Sexstyle

3: Love Madness

Section II: The Psychology of Love and Sexual Desire

4: Romantic Love and Sexual Desire

5: Romantic Love and the Psychology of Sexual Behavior: Open and Closed Secrets

Section III: Evolutionary and Investment Models

6: Divorce as a Consequence of Spousal Infidelity

7: Race, Gender, and Romantic Commitment

8: Romantic Ideals as Comparison Levels: Implications for Satisfaction and Commitment in Romantic Involvements

Section IV: Aids and Cultural Narratives

9: Narratives of Love and the Risk of Safer Sex

10: Contemporary Youths' Negotiations of Romance, Love, Sex, and Sexual Disease

Section V: Cross-Cultural Studies of Love and Sex

11: Love and Limerence with Chinese Characteristics: Student Romance in the Prc

12: Lust, Love, and Arranged Marriages in Sri Lanka

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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Love and Friendship in Plato and Aristotle
by A. W. Price. 286 pgs.

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This book explores for the first time an idea common to both Plato and Aristotle: although people are separate, their lives need not be; one person's life may overflow into another's, so that helping someone else is a way of serving oneself. Price considers how this idea unites the philosophers' treatments of love and friendship (which are otherwise very different), and demonstrates that this view of love and friendship, applied not only to personal relationships, but also to the household and even the city-state, promises to resolve the old dichotomy between egoism and altruism.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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NOTE TO THE READER

ABBREVIATIONS

1: Friendship and Desire in the Lysis

2: Love in the Symposium

3: Love in the Phaedrus

4: Perfect Friendship in Aristotle

5: Aristotle on the Varieties of Friendship

6: The Household

7: The City

Epilogue

Appendix 1: Homogeneity and Beauty in the Symposium

Appendix 2: Psychoanalysis Looks at the Phaedrus

Appendix 3: Plato's Sexual Morality

Appendix 4: Aristotle on Erotic Love

Afterword (1997)

List of Modern Works Cited

Index
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The Kama Sutra: The Classic Hindu Treatise on Love and Social Conduct
by Santha Rama Rau, Richard F. Burton, Vatsyayana. 252 pgs.

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A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the Kama Sutra has been an indisputable classic of world literature for more than 1,700 years.

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Foreword

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Preface

Chapter I: Being the Index to or Contents of the Work

Chapter II: On the Acquisition of Dharma, Artha, and Kama

Chapter III: On the Arts and Sciences to Be Studied

Chapter IV: The Life of the Citizenthis Term Would Appear to Apply Generally to an Inhabitant of Hindustan. It Is Not Meant Only for a Dweller in a City, like the Latin Urbanus as Opposed to Rusticus.

Chapter V: On the Kinds of Women Resorted to by the Citizen

Chapter I: Kinds of Union According to Dimensions, Force of Desire or Passion, and Time

Chapter II: On the Embrace

Chapter III: On Kissing

Chapter IV: On Pressing or Marking or Scratching with the Nails

Chapter V: On Biting, and the Means to Be Employed with Regard to Women of Different Countries

Chapter VI: On the Various Ways of Lying Down, and the Different Kinds of Congress

Chapter VII: On the Various Modes of Striking, and on the Sounds Appropriate to them

Chapter VIII: On Women Acting the Part of a Man; and on the Work of a Man

Chapter IX: On the Auparishtaka, or Mouth Congress

Chapter X: How to Begin and How to End the Congress; Different Kinds of Congress, and Love Quarrels

Part Three: About the Acquisition of a Wife

Chapter I: On Marriage

Chapter II: On Creating Confidence in the Girl

Chapter III: On Courtship, and the Manifestation of the Feelings by Outward Signs and Deeds

Chapter IV: On Things to Be Done Only by the Man, and the Acquisition of the Girl Thereby. Also, What Is to Be Done by a Girl to Gain over a Man, and Subject Him to Her

Chapter V: On Certain Forms of Marriage

Part Four: About a Wife

Chapter I: On the Manner of Living of a Virtuous Woman, and of Her Behavior during the Absence of Her Husband

Chapter II: On the Conduct of the Elder Wife toward the Other Wives of Her Husband, and on That of a Younger Wife toward the Elder Ones. on the Conduct of a Virgin Widow Remarried. on a Wife Disliked by Her Husband. on the Women in the King's Harem. And, Lastly, on the Conduct of a Husband toward Many Wives

Part Five: About the Wives of Other Men

Chapter I: On the Characteristics of Men and Women. on the Reasons Why Women Reject the Addresses of Men. on Men Who Have Success with Women; and on Women Who Are Easily Gained Over

Chapter II: On Making Acquaintance with the Woman, and on Efforts to Gain Her Over

Chapter III: Examination of the State of a Woman's Mind

Chapter IV: The Business of a Go-Between

Chapter V: On the Love of Persons in Authority for the Wives of Other Men

Chapter VI: About the Women of the Royal Harems; and on Keeping of One's Own Wife

Art Six: About Courtesans

Chapter I: On the Causes of a Courtesan Resorting to Men; on the Means of Attaching to Herself the Man Desired; and on the Kind of Man That It Is Desirable to Be Acquainted With

Chapter II: On a Courtesan Living like a Wife

Chapter III: On the Means of Getting Money. on the Signs of Change of a Lover's Feelings, and on the Way to Get Rid of Him

Chapter IV: On Reunion with a Former Lover

Chapter V: On Different Kinds of Gain

Chapter VI: On Gains and Losses; Attendant Gains, Losses, and Doubts. And, Lastly, on the Different Kinds of Courtesans

Part Seven: On the Means of Attracting Others to Yourself

Chapter I: On Personal Adornment; on Subjugating the Hearts of Others; and on Tonic Medicines

Chapter II: On the Ways of Exciting Desire; and on Miscellaneous Experiments and Recipes
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Sex and Love in the Bible
by William Graham Cole. 434 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1: Divine Love in the Old Testament

2: Human Love in the Old Testament

3: Divine Love in the New Testament

4: Human Love in the New Testament

5: Sex Attitudes and Practices: Israel Against Her Neighbors

6: Sex Attitudes and Practices: the Early Church Against the Graeco-Roman World

7: Premarital Sex Relations in the Bible

8: Sex in Marriage

9: Prostitution Adultery, and Divorce

10: Homosexuality in the Bible

11: Other Sexual Deviations

12: The Bible and the World of Dr. Kinsey

Index
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The Evolution of Love
by Ada Lampert. 136 pgs.

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Lampert presents the story of love: when, why, and how love became a central experience of humans. She sheds new insights as to who we fall in love with, why our sexual life is so full of contradictions, and from where the behavioral repertoire of lovers came. Based upon the most current scientific information, this book is written for every educated person.

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Introduction

1: Love is Matter

2: Genes for Love

3: The Appearance of Love

4: Maternal Love in Humans

5: Motherhood Spfaks

6: Materna Love as a Model

7: Evolution of a Loving Brain

8: The Hierarchy of Love Styles in the Brain

9: The Hierarchy of Sexual Styles in the Brain

10: Evolution of Sexuality

11: Sexual Strategies

12: Long-Term Bonding

13: Evolution of the Family

14: Mate Selection

15: Homosexual Love

Epilogue

Sources and Further Reading

Index

About the Author

Recent Tides in Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence
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Love and Friendship
by Jules Toner. 320 pgs.

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Book 1: Contents

Book 2: Contents

Editor's Foreword

Acknowledgments

Book 1: The Experience of Love

1: The Question and Procedure

Part 1: Dialectical Survey

2: Love as Desire and Joy

3: Love as Source of Desire and Joy or as Object of Desire

Part 2: Descriptive Analysis of Experience

4: Radical Love

5: Radical Love as Response

6: Radical Love as Union

7: Radical Love as Affirmation

8: Radical Love as the Irreducible Root of the Total Concrete Experienceof Love

9: The Consummation of Radical Love: Communion

Book 2: Book 2 Personal Friendship the Experience and the Ideal

Dedication

Introduction

Part 1: The Experience of Personal Love and Communion

1: A Preliminary Problem: Diverse Notions of Love

2: A Solution of the Problem: Descriptive Analysis of the Total Experience of Love

3: Personal Love and Communion: Descriptive Analysis and Synthesis

Part 2: The Experience of Personal Love Friendship

4: Friendship: the Basic Types

5: Personal Friendship: Its Essential Features

6: Sharing Lives in Personal Friendship

7: Ideal of Mature Personal Friendship

8: Personal Freindship and Mutal Romantic Love: Contrast and Relationship

9: Transcendent Human Dynamism

10: Dynamism to Personal Love, Communion, and Friendship

11: Dynamism to Universal Personal Friendship

12: Dynamism to Personal Friendship with God

13: Dynamism to One Universality Inclusive Friendship

Epilogue: A Tragic Conclusion and the Hope of Overcoming It

Bibliography

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