Niklas Luhmann ; translated by Jeremy Gaines and Doris L. Jones.
Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
1998.
247 pages ;
23 cm.
Cultural memory in the present
Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-239) and index.
Preface to the English edition -- Introduction -- Society and individual : personal and impersonal relationships -- Love as a generalized symbolic medium of communication -- The evolution of communicative capacities -- The evolution of the semantics of love -- Freedom to love : from the ideal to the paradox -- The rhetoric of excess and the experience of instability -- From galantry to friendship -- Plaisir and amour : the primary difference -- Love versus reason -- En route to individualization : a state of ferment in the eighteenth century -- The incorporation of sexuality -- The discovery of incommunicability -- Romantic love -- Love and marriage : the ideology of reproduction -- What now? problems and alternatives -- Love as a system of interpenetration.