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March 27, 2017 | Aesthetics

By Susan Wolf,Christopher Grau

This selection of unique essays, written by way of students from disciplines around the humanities, addresses a variety of questions about love via a spotlight on person movies, novels, performs, and works of philosophy. The essays contact on many sorts of affection, together with friendship, romantic love, parental love, or even the affection of an writer for her characters. How do social forces form the kinds of affection that may flourish and maintain themselves? what's the dating among love and keenness? Is love among human and nonhuman animals attainable? what's the position of projection in love? those questions and extra are explored via an research of works by way of authors starting from Henrik Ibsen to Ian McEwan, from Rousseau to the Coen Brothers.

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