Library For Life - On Love
Library For Life - On Love
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Each title in our box set collection contains our pick of essential classic and modern texts on a given theme. This set is about Love, and follows four thinkers as they try to understand love, reason with it - and, ultimately, fall at its feet.
Essays in Love by Alain de Botton - Charts the progress of a love affair from the first kiss to argument and reconciliation, from intimacy and tenderness to the onset of anxiety and heartbreak.
A Lover's Discourse by Roland Barthes - An examination of the language we use when we are in love, arguing that it is not a language we speak. It is a language addressed to ourselves and to our imaginary beloved. It is a language of solitude, of mythology, of what Barthes calls an "image repertoire".
On Love by Stendhal - This is a profound attempt to rationalize that most complex of emotions - romantic love. Inspired by unrequited passion, he brings together logical, clear-sighted analysis with all-consuming emotion, to most remarkable effect. The result is an astonishing work that bears all the hallmarks of Stendhal's later masterpieces.
Conditions of Love by John Armstrong - An exploration of how our perception of love is formed by culture and history by drawing on writers such as Plato, Tolstoy and Freud.
Box set | 4 hardback books | 203mm x 124mm
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