Ebook: Love: a Secret History

Acknowledgements; Preface; Love plays God; The foundation of Western love; From physical desire to paradise; Love as perfect friendship; Love as sexual desire; Love as the supreme virtue; Why Christian love isn't unconditional; Women as ideals; How human nature became loveable; Love as joyful understanding of the whole; Love as Enlightened Romanticism; Love as religion; Love as the urge to procreate; Love as affirmation of life; Love as a history of loss; Love as terror and tedium; Love reconsidered; Notes; Bibliography; Index.