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Building on concepts developed in his previously published New Theory of Beauty, Guy Sircello constructs a bold and provocative theory of love in which the objects of love are the qualities that "bear" beauty and the pleasure of all love is "erotic," without being "sexual.&q...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[1989] ©1989 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Building on concepts developed in his previously published New Theory of Beauty, Guy Sircello constructs a bold and provocative theory of love in which the objects of love are the qualities that "bear" beauty and the pleasure of all love is "erotic," without being "sexual." The theory reveals a continuity of subject matter between premodern notions of love and modern notions of aesthetic pleasure, thus providing grounds for criticizing modern tendencies to isolate the aesthetic both culturally and psychologically and to separate it from its home in the human body.The author begins with an analysis of enjoyment that reduces all enjoyment to the enjoyment of the "experience of qualities." He explains how we experience qualities as "circulating" in a special form of "space" that includes our own bodies, the external world, and their interpenetration. Sircello generalizes this analysis to encompass all forms of love and grounds the pleasure of all love--aesthetic or nonaesthetic, personal or nonpersonal, sexual or nonsexual--in an experience of the form of an "overall bodily caress."Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781400860173 |
| Index Number: | BD436 |
| CLC: | B089.3 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Reviving Love -- 2. Pleasure and Enjoyment -- 3. Enjoyment and Desire -- 4 .The Experience of Enjoyment -- 5 .The Desire for Immortality -- 6. The Enjoyment of Experience -- 7. Experience and Quality -- 8. Eschewing the Metaphysics of Qualities -- 9 .The World of Qualities -- 10. Sameness of Quality: A Problem -- 11. Sameness of Quality: A Solution -- 12. An Introduction to Expansion Experiences -- 13. Arousals -- 14. Arousals and Motions of the Soul -- 15. Preparations -- 16. Expressions -- 17. Penetrations of the External World -- 18. Influences -- 19. Penetrations from the External World -- 20. The Directions of Expansion -- 21. The Expansion of Moral Qualities -- 22. The Expansion of Mental Qualities -- 23. Claritas and Expansion -- 24. Nights of Love -- 25. Love and Reproduction -- 26. Some Observations about Love and Reproduction -- 27. Some Corroborating Experiences -- 28. Further Corroborations -- 29. The Love of Virtue -- 30. Moral Self-indulgence -- 31. Loving Others -- 32. A Comprehensive Theory of Love -- 33. Love and Sex -- 34. Loving Pain -- 35. Loving Evil -- 36. The Ethics of Love -- 37. The Touch of Experience -- 38. Anteclimax -- 39. Anticlimax -- Notes -- Index. |