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Book Synopsis* Luc Ferry is a well-known philosopher, essayist and public intellectual, with a large and established readership. * In this broad-ranging and original book, he presents a clear argument for a comprehensive philosophy of love that will in effect replace dead faiths and ideologies.
Trade Review"Highly recommended - Ferry challenges readers to consider love as no longer lurking on the periphery of philosophic consciousness, but instead as providing a new definition of the good life."
Choice"
On Love is thrilling - fireworks of ideas, flashing sabres, and a hell of a good gallop."
Times Higher Education"The great value of Ferry's work lies in his vitality of thought. His celebration of love guarantees that philosophy will remain alive and well throughout the 21st century. And that, to many of us, is something to cherish."
Wichita Eagle"With his usual clarity, rigour, and intelligence, Luc Ferry in his new book tackles the daunting topic of love, its history in modern culture and society, and its role and benefits for the present and the future. For Ferry, love offers not only the possibility of surpassing the broken ideals of the past, but of founding a new humanism in the century ahead. Highly recommended."
Richard J. Golsan, Texas A&M University"With great clarity and an extraordinary sense of historical synthesis, Luc Ferry traces the genealogy of love in the West, right up to its contemporary status where it has triumphed as the apotheosis of our civilization."
Pascal Bruckner, Le Nouvel ObservateurTable of Contents
- Contents
- Preface by Claude Capelier
- Introduction: A brief history of the meaning of life
- Chapter 1 - The revolution of love
- A new principle of meaning
- Chapter 2 - Politics at the dawn of a new era
- From the revolution of love to care for the fate of
- future generations
- Chapter 3 - On the spiritual in art and education
- Conclusion - Death, the only objection? Love, a utopia?
