{"product_id":"confessions-of-love-9781433111846","title":"Confessions of Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eConfessions of Love: The Ambiguities of Greek Eros' and Latin Caritas'\u003c\/i\u003e includes a collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars such as Phillip Cary, Roland Teske, and Leonid Rudnytzky, tackling some historic, controversial confessions of love. Inspired by the Augustinian tradition, this volume focuses on the ambiguous nature of love, especially with regard to some of the conflicting aspects of Greek \u003ci\u003eeros\u003c\/i\u003e and its ancient Latin rival, \u003ci\u003ecaritas,\u003c\/i\u003e in great thinkers like Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Marsilio Ficino, Freud, and Max Scheler. This volume will be of interest to humanities, philosophy, theology, history, and classics departments seeking a new way to approach the Western tradition through the historic controversy in the West over \u003ci\u003eeros\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ecaritas.\u003c\/i\u003e Finally, its focus on the retrieval and disclosure of sensuality and eroticism in these great texts will also be of special interest to postmodernism and hermeneutics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Craig J. N. de Paulo: Foreword – Craig J. N. de Paulo\/Leonid Rudnytzky: Introduction – Roland J. Teske, S.J: The Ambiguity of Love in Augustine of Hippo – Phillip Cary: Love and Tears: Augustine’s Project of Loving without Losing – Patrick A. Messina: Love Lost and Found: The Ambiguities of \u003ci\u003eAmor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaritas \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eConcupiscentia \u003c\/i\u003ein St. Thomas Aquinas’ \u003ci\u003eSumma Theologiae – \u003c\/i\u003eCatherine Conroy de Paulo: Marsilio Ficino’s Neoplatonic Ascent of the Soul in Relation to his Augustinian Notion of Friendship – Luis Gomez: Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas: How Laughter Replaces \u003ci\u003eEros \u003c\/i\u003ein «\u003ci\u003eApolo siguidendo a Dafne\u003c\/i\u003e» – Bernhardt Blumenthal: The Ambiguity of \u003ci\u003eEros \u003c\/i\u003ein Thomas Mann’s \u003ci\u003eDeath in Venice \u003c\/i\u003eand Other Writings – Leonid Rudnytzky: \u003ci\u003eEros \u003c\/i\u003eand Ambiguity in Ukrainian Literature: The Case of Ivan Franko (1856-1916) – Bruce Lapenson: Divided Loyalties: \u003ci\u003eEros \u003c\/i\u003eand Ambiguity in Freud; Attempts at Resolution and their Discontents – Thomas Carroll: A Deceptive Ambiguity: Revisiting Scheler’s Philosophy of Love and Religious Activity – Craig J. N. de Paulo: A Mystagogical Ascent of Love: A Spiritual Reflection on the Sensuality of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy – Pieter Adriaens: \u003ci\u003eEros\u003c\/i\u003e’ Ambiguity: A Philosophical History of Male Love.","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039529402711,"sku":"9781433111846","price":60.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433111846.jpg?v=1750943975","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/confessions-of-love-9781433111846","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}