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* This classic book by Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of passionate love as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition 1

Introduction 8

1 Society and Individual 12
Personal and Impersonal Relationships

2 Love as a Generalized Symbolic Medium of Communication 18

3 The Evolution of Communicative Capacities 34

4 The Evolution of the Semantics of Love 41

5 Freedom to Love 48
From the Ideal to the Paradox

6 The Rhetoric of Excess and the Experience of Instability 58

7 From Galantry to Friendship 76

8 Plaisir and Amour 84
The Primary Difference

9 Love versus Reason 94

10 En Route to Individualization 97
A State of Ferment in the Eighteenth Century

11 The Incorporation of Sexuality 109

12 The Discovery of Incommunicability 121

13 Romantic Love 129

14 Love and Marriage 145
The Ideology of Reproduction

15 What Now? 155
Problems and Alternatives

16 Love as a System of Interpenetration 172

Notes 179

Index 240

Love as Passion The Codification of Intimacy

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/04/2012
      ISBN13: 9780745600789, 978-0745600789
      ISBN10: 0745600786

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      * This classic book by Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of passionate love as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies.

      Table of Contents

      Preface to the English Edition 1

      Introduction 8

      1 Society and Individual 12
      Personal and Impersonal Relationships

      2 Love as a Generalized Symbolic Medium of Communication 18

      3 The Evolution of Communicative Capacities 34

      4 The Evolution of the Semantics of Love 41

      5 Freedom to Love 48
      From the Ideal to the Paradox

      6 The Rhetoric of Excess and the Experience of Instability 58

      7 From Galantry to Friendship 76

      8 Plaisir and Amour 84
      The Primary Difference

      9 Love versus Reason 94

      10 En Route to Individualization 97
      A State of Ferment in the Eighteenth Century

      11 The Incorporation of Sexuality 109

      12 The Discovery of Incommunicability 121

      13 Romantic Love 129

      14 Love and Marriage 145
      The Ideology of Reproduction

      15 What Now? 155
      Problems and Alternatives

      16 Love as a System of Interpenetration 172

      Notes 179

      Index 240

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