| Abelard, 100 | |
| abstinence, 92–94, 164–70, 177–78, 249n10 | |
| Abu Ghraib, 170 | |
| Adam and Eve, 148 | |
| adolescence, diversity intoxication, 32–33 | |
| adultery: confessions malice, 102, 104–6; flirting as, 106–7; French-U.S. perspectives compared, 110–14, 239n10; Hugo’s perspective, 9–10, 231n3; Kinsey report, 245n6; love-marriage expectations, 85–87; national perspectives compared, 104–6, 239n10; as partner failure, 103– 4; psychoanalytic perspectives, 102–3; public figure expectations, 110–13, 239n10; as traditional marriage complement, 82–83, 113–14 | |
| affectivity, informal, 205–8, 210–11, 254n3 | |
| age and desire, 176–78 | |
| AIDS epidemic, 197, 253n19 | |
| Alacoque, Marie, 251n5 | |
| Algeria, Tiberine Trappists, 252n13 | |
| Allen, Woody, 38 | |
| Alric, Charles, 235n5 (ch 4) | |
| always, in “I love you” formula, 60–61 | |
| Ambrose, St., 164 | |
| André, Jacques, 253n16 | |
| anonymous coupling, 174–75, 250n20 | |
| anti-Americanism, 223–24 | |
| Aragon, Louis, 74 | |
| Aristotle, 64 | |
| Armand, Émile, 12 | |
| ascetics, Christian, 164 | |
| attachment-emancipation contradiction, 19–25 | |
| Augustine, St., 147–48, 185, 186, 187 188, 189–90 | |
| autarky, defined, 27 | |
| avengers, post-love declaration, 70–72 |
| Badiou, Alain, 194 | |
| Bajos, Nathalie, 245n5 | |
| Balzac, 52, 82, 205 | |
| Barthes, Roland, 19–20, 232n11 | |
| Bataille, Georges, 159–60 | |
| Baudelaire, Charles, 141 | |
| Bauman, Zygmunt, 85 | |
| Beatles, 125 | |
| beauty, contradictions, 51–52, 215–19 | |
| being from love, 64–67 68–70 | |
| Bellow, Saul, 233n15 | |
| Benedict XVI, 211, 253n19 | |
| Berl, Emmanuel, 202–3 |
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Publication information:
Book title: The Paradox of Love.
Contributors: Pascal Bruckner - Author, Steven Rendall - Translator.
Publisher: Princeton University Press.
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ.
Publication year: 2012.
Page number: 257.
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