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Lawrence, Shaw, and others in the contemporary world.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIrving Singer's trilogy \u003ci\u003eThe Nature of Love\u003c\/i\u003e has been called majestic (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), monumental (\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), one of the major works of philosophy in our century (\u003ci\u003eNous\u003c\/i\u003e), wise and magisterial (\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e), and a masterpiece of critical thinking  that] is a timely, eloquent, and scrupulous account of what, after all, still makes the world go round (\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the third volume, Singer examines the pervasive dialectic between optimistic idealism and pessimistic realism in modern thinking about the nature of love. He begins by discussing anti-Romantic Romantics (focusing on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy), influential nineteenth-century thinkers whose views illustrate much of the ambiguity and self-contradiction that permeate thinking about love in the last hundred years. He offers detailed studies of Freud, Proust, Shaw, D. H. Lawrence, and Santayana, and he maps the ideas about love in Continental existentialism, particularly those of Sartre and de Beauvoir. Singer finally envisages a future of cooperation between pluralistic humanists and empirical scientists. 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