Pascal Bruckner ; translated by Steven Rendall, and with an afterword by Richard Golsan.
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
c2011.
(Baltimore, Md. :
Project MUSE,
2015)
1 online resource (266 p. )
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A great dream of redemption -- Liberating the human heart -- Seduction as a market -- I love you : weakness and capture -- Idyll and discord -- The noble challenge of marriage for love -- Fluctuating loyalties -- The pleasures and servitudes of living together -- The carnal wonder -- Is there a sexual revolution? -- Toward a bankruptcy of eros? -- The ideology of love -- Persecution in the name of love: christianity and communism -- Marcel proust's slippers -- Epilogue : don't be ashamed!.