About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1993
Description: Good. A searching examination of the basic human connections at the center of the greatest works of literature and philosophy through the ages and directed at our contemporary culture. read more
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780671673369ISBN:067167336X
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. Light shelf wear to dj edge, small line at bottom outer closed pages, text in very good cond., clean and tightly bound. read more
"Allan Bloom, with his characteristic combination of brilliance and bombast, laments the death of Eros in the modern world. The culprits are the familiar Straussian bugaboos: a reductionist and materialistic modern science, a relativistic moral climate, and a repulsive consumer culture combine to narrow contemporary man's erotic horizons, and leave him unable to come to grips with the hopes and fears of true intimacy.
Bloom seeks to restore his reader to erotic health by returning to philosophy and literature--the true teachers and knowers of love--and, to that end, offers a set of interpretive essays that vary considerably in their substance and quality. Highlights include a lovely comparative treatment of Montaigne and Shakespeare on friendship, a wonderful commentary on Rousseau's Emile, and a splendid essay on Plato's Symposium. Essays on Tolstoy and Austen, however, are less helpful.
Love and Friendship is Bloom at his best and his worst. The argumentation is often elliptical, assertoric, tortured, sanctimonious--in short, infuriating. But if Bloom is irritating, he is also indispensable. This book shows why."
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