Meaning in Life: The Pursuit of Love
Irving Singer
Abstract
The trilogy The Nature of Love traced the development of the concept of love in history and literature from the Greeks to the twentieth century. This second volume returns to the subject of earlier work, exploring a different approach. Without denying previous emphasis on the role of imagination and creativity, this book investigates the ability of them both to make one's life meaningful. A “systematic mapping” of the various facets of love (including sexual love, love in society, and religious love), the book is an extended work that offers personal philosophical and psychological theory of l ... More
Keywords: imagination, creativity, systematic mapping, sexual love, love in society, religious love, theory of love, history of ideas, human relationships, Nature of Love
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2009 | Print ISBN-13: 9780262513579 |
| Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: August 2013 | DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262513579.001.0001 |
