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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Luhmann, Niklas, 1927-1998. Love as passion. (OCoLC)802321985 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Niklas Luhmann; Jeremy Gaines; Doris L Jones |
ISBN: | 9780745692340 0745692346 |
OCLC Number: | 911616785 |
Language Note: | Translated from the German. |
Notes: | Originally published: 1986. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Introduction ---- 1. Society and Individual: Personal and Impersonal Relationships --- 2. Love as a Generalized Symbolic Medium of Communication --- 3. The Evolution of Communicative Capacities --- 4. The Evolution of the Semantics of Love --- 5. Freedom to Love: From the Ideal to the Paradox --- 6. The Rhetoric of Excess and the Experience of Instability --- 7. From Galantry to Friendship --- 8. Plaisir and Amour: The Primary Difference --- 9. Love versus Reason --- 10. En Route to Individualization: A State of Ferment in the Eighteenth Century --- 11. The Incorporation of Sexuality --- 12. The Discovery of Incommunicability --- 13. Romantic Love --- 14. Love and Marriage: The Ideology of Reproduction ---- 15. What Now? Problems and Alternatives --- 16. Love as a System of Interpenetration. |
Series Title: | Cultural memory in the present. |
Other Titles: | Liebe als Passion. |
Responsibility: | Niklas Luhmann ; translated by Jeremy Gaines and Doris L. Jones. |
Abstract:
* This classic book by Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of passionate love as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies.
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