Niklas Luhmann ; translated by Jeremy Gaines and Doris L. Jones.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Stanford, Calif. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Stanford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1998.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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247 pages ;
Dimensions
23 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Cultural memory in the present
GENERAL NOTES
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Originally published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-239) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.