Love by Anne Marie Pahuus - 9781421447858

Name: Love by Anne Marie Pahuus - 9781421447858
Brand: Johns Hopkins University Press

Johns Hopkins University Press

LoveBrief Books about Big Ideas\nAuthor(s): Anne Marie Pahuus\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Johns Hopkins University Press, United States\nImprint: Johns Hopkins University Press\nISBN-13: 9781421447858, 978-1421447858\nSynopsis\nA brief but engaging look at love.\n\nIn Love, researcher Anne Marie Pahuus explores the fascinating dimensions of this complicated and alluring feeling. Defining love as a mixture of warm emotions fueled by our wish to be with another person, Pahuus illustrates how love frames and influences our eventful lives, plans, and goals. But we haven't always viewed love in the romantic way that we see it nowthe idea of love has changed and evolved throughout history, from Plato to Kierkegaard and Milan Kundera. Love determines our experience of happiness, but it also defines our responsibilities. Pahuus asks provocative questions: How do our attitudes toward love reinforce or subvert traditional ideas about gender, sexuality, and partnership? And how do we experie.