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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221122686
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 432
Size : 135 x 215 mm
I Love, Therefore I Am

Collection : Les Mardis de la philo
Release date : 15/03/2012

What does it mean to fall in love? Are we biologically programmed for love? Why does love lead to suffering? What is love at first sight? Is it possible to love someone eternally? Where do Western sexual morals stem from? What purpose does marriage serve? Does the word “love” mean...

What does it mean to fall in love? Are we biologically programmed for love? Why does love lead to suffering? What is love at first sight? Is it possible to love someone eternally? Where do Western sexual morals stem from? What purpose does marriage serve? Does the word “love” mean the same thing to men and women?

Olivia Gazalé sheds an original light on these questions, and countless more, by compiling an anthology of love in philosophy, history, sociology, psychoanalysis, biology and literature. Her sources range from Plato and Homère to Freud and Jung, from Nietzsche and Kierkegaard to Houellebecq and Sophie Fontanel.

Olivie Gazalé guides her reader step by step through the labyrinth that is love. She attempts to answer each question by exposing the theories offered by the person who had the most conclusive arguments on the subject. The reader can revisit their own experiences and learn to better understand the meaning of their romantic failures and successes by being presented the points of view of these great thinkers.

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EAN : 9782221122686
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 432
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont