Conditions of Love
The Philosophy of Intimacy
Penguin
Paperback
: 30 Jan 2003
£10.99
Synopsis
What does it really mean to love another person? Is there such a thing as the ‘perfect’ partner? How does infatuation differ from the real thing?
The need to love and be loved is central to our idea of happiness, yet it sometimes seems that the more we reflect on it the more elusive it becomes. In this lucid and graceful meditation on the deeper meanings of intimacy, John Armstrong explores the ideas that have shaped how we view affairs of the heart. Drawing on poetry, novels, philosophy, paintings and music, he shows how love is inextricably bound up with perception and the imagination: that loving a real, complicated person and being understood and valued by them in turn is not something we find, but rather something we create.
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‘Wise, discursive … as a gentle corrective to our ideas about ourselves, it is powerful and valuable’
Sunday Times
‘The reader is attracted, amused, left fulfilled and eager for more’
Independent on Sunday
‘The author of The Intimate Philosophy of Art has done it again in this elegant, wide-ranging and genuinely revelatory essay’
Scotsman
‘An elegant little book … perceptive and tender. You could do far worse than to give this to your brain as a Valentine’s Day gift’
Evening Standard
Product details
Format :
Paperback
ISBN: 9780140294712
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 176
Published : 30 Jan 2003
Publisher : Penguin
Conditions of Love
The Philosophy of Intimacy
£10.99
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