Bruckner The Paradox of Love

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4185-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Pascal Bruckner is the award-winning author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Bitter Moon, which was made into a film by Roman Polanski. Bruckner's nonfiction books include Perpetual Euphoria (Princeton) and The Tyranny of Guilt.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bruckner, Pascal

Weitere Mitwirkende

Golsan, Richard

Randall, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1

Part I: A Great Dream of Redemption 7

Chapter 1: Liberating the Human Heart 9

Chapter 2: Seduction as a Market 32

Chapter 3: I Love You: Weakness and Capture 57

Part II: Idyll and Discord 77

Chapter 4: The Noble Challenge of Marriage for Love 79

Chapter 5: Fluctuating Loyalties 100

Chapter 6: The Pleasures and Servitudes of Living Together 121

Part III: The Carnal Wonder 139

Chapter 7: Is There a Sexual Revolution? 141

Chapter 8: Toward a Bankruptcy of Eros? 161

Part IV: The Ideology of Love 181

Chapter 9: Persecution in the Name of Love: Christianity and Communism 183

Chapter 10: Marcel Proust’s Slippers 202

Epilogue: Don’t Be Ashamed! 218

Afterword: Pascal Bruckner’s Paradoxes 221

Notes 231

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

Pascal Bruckner is the award-winning author of many books of fiction and nonfiction, including the novel Bitter Moon, which was made into a film by Roman Polanski. Bruckner's nonfiction books include Perpetual Euphoria (Princeton) and The Tyranny of Guilt.