Love and Society discusses the meaning and importance of love for contemporary society. Love is not only an emotion that occurs in our intimate relationships; it is a special emotion that allows us to relate to each other in a lasting fashion, to create out of our individual pasts a shared past, which enables us to project a shared future.
Bringing together the idea of Simmel s second order forms with theories of love, this insightful volume shows that the answer to why love is so central to society can be found in the social transformation of...
Why does love matter?
Love and Society discusses the meaning and importance of love for contemporary society. Love is not only an emo...