Love by Simon May
Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards those we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a promise of home--in a world that we supremely value. He also proposes that the child is supplanting the romantic partner as the supreme object of love.
Nearly every page offers up new insight and the book as a whole is a truly impressive achievementIt makes a serious contribution to analytic philosophy while at the same time being highly readable. * European Journal of Philosophy *
May's book represents a major contribution to our understanding of love. … The sense that May is striving single-handedly to dismantle some of society's most sacrosanct beliefs, together with the wonderful clarity of the writing, which is rigorous without ever feeling technical, and the strength of the original premise, make Love: A New Understanding compellingly readable. Excitingly new, yet immediately recognizable-that's the paradox at the very heart of love, and it is what Simon May has achieved. * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Truly ambitious…an engaging and unique account of love. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
May's general account of love as seeking ontological rootedness is profound and convincing. … [His] book offers one of the most significant philosophical accounts of the nature of love, which shows how through love we can become at home in the world. * The Philosophical Quarterly *
May devotes a great deal of research to identify the meaning and the sense of love in the existence of human beings. In the last paragraph of the study he concludes modestly that discussing the issue is only auxiliary to experiencing it…in this lies May's book's greatest merit: to see it [love] as intrinsically human. * Robert Zaborowski, Metapsychology Online Reviews *
May's book represents a major contribution to our understanding of love. … The sense that May is striving single-handedly to dismantle some of society's most sacrosanct beliefs, together with the wonderful clarity of the writing, which is rigorous without ever feeling technical, and the strength of the original premise, make Love: A New Understanding compellingly readable. Excitingly new, yet immediately recognizable-that's the paradox at the very heart of love, and it is what Simon May has achieved. * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Truly ambitious…an engaging and unique account of love. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
May's general account of love as seeking ontological rootedness is profound and convincing. … [His] book offers one of the most significant philosophical accounts of the nature of love, which shows how through love we can become at home in the world. * The Philosophical Quarterly *
May devotes a great deal of research to identify the meaning and the sense of love in the existence of human beings. In the last paragraph of the study he concludes modestly that discussing the issue is only auxiliary to experiencing it…in this lies May's book's greatest merit: to see it [love] as intrinsically human. * Robert Zaborowski, Metapsychology Online Reviews *
Simon May is visiting professor of philosophy at King's College London. His books include Love: A History (Yale University Press, 2011), Nietzsche's Ethics and his War on "Morality" (Oxford University Press, 1999), a collection of his own aphorisms entitled Thinking Aloud (Alma Books, 2009), which was a Financial Times Book of the Year, and two edited volumes on Nietzsche's philosophy (OUP, 2009 and CUP, 2011). He has contributed op-eds to newspapers such as the Financial Times and the Washington Post, and has appeared on radio and TV for the BBC, among other broadcasters. His work has been translated into ten languages.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780190884833 |
| ISBN 10 | 0190884835 |
| Title | Love |
| Author | Simon May |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2019-07-04 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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