Love and Friendship
Douban
Allan Bloom
Übersicht
The author of the national bestseller The Closing of the American Mind offers a provocative indictment of the devaluing of love and intimacy in today's culture. Allan Bloom explores the language of love from the Bible to Freud, shedding penetrating light on the true nature of our most basic human connections. "(A) rich mine of a book".--New York Daily News.
Inhalt
Introduction: The Fall of Eros 13
Pt. 1 Rousseau and the Romantic Project 37
1 Rousseau 39
2 Stendhal, The Red and the Black 157
3 Austen, Pride and Prejudice 191
4 Flaubert, Madame Bovary 209
5 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 231
6 Conclusion 259
Pt. 2 Shakespeare and Nature 267
Introduction 269
7 Romeo and Juliet 273
8 Antony and Cleopatra 297
9 Measure for Measure 327
10 Troilus and Cressida 347
11 The Winter's Tale 375
12 Conclusion 393
Interlude on Two Strange Couples: Hal and Falstaff, Montaigne and La Boetie 399
Pt. 3 The Ladder of Love 429
Epilogue 547
Notes 553
Index 565
