Beschreibung
Confessions of Love: The Ambiguities of Greek Eros and Latin Caritas includes a collection of essays by internationally renowned scholars such as Phillip Cary, Roland Teske, and Leonid Rudnytzky, tackling some historic, controversial «confessions» of love. Inspired by the Augustinian tradition, this volume focuses on the ambiguous nature of love, especially with regard to some of the conflicting aspects of Greek eros and its ancient Latin rival, caritas, in great thinkers like Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Marsilio Ficino, Freud, and Max Scheler. This volume will be of interest to humanities, philosophy, theology, history, and classics departments seeking a new way to approach the Western tradition through the historic controversy in the West over eros and caritas. Finally, its focus on the retrieval and disclosure of sensuality and eroticism in these great texts will also be of special interest to postmodernism and hermeneutics.
Inhalt
Contents: Craig J. N. de Paulo: Foreword – Craig J. N. de Paulo/Leonid Rudnytzky: Introduction – Roland J. Teske, S.J: The Ambiguity of Love in Augustine of Hippo – Phillip Cary: Love and Tears: Augustine’s Project of Loving without Losing – Patrick A. Messina: Love Lost and Found: The Ambiguities of
,
and
in St. Thomas Aquinas’
Catherine Conroy de Paulo: Marsilio Ficino’s Neoplatonic Ascent of the Soul in Relation to his Augustinian Notion of Friendship – Luis Gomez: Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas: How Laughter Replaces
in «
» – Bernhardt Blumenthal: The Ambiguity of
in Thomas Mann’s
and Other Writings – Leonid Rudnytzky:
and Ambiguity in Ukrainian Literature: The Case of Ivan Franko (1856-1916) – Bruce Lapenson: Divided Loyalties:
and Ambiguity in Freud; Attempts at Resolution and their Discontents – Thomas Carroll: A Deceptive Ambiguity: Revisiting Scheler’s Philosophy of Love and Religious Activity – Craig J. N. de Paulo: A Mystagogical Ascent of Love: A Spiritual Reflection on the Sensuality of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy – Pieter Adriaens:
’ Ambiguity: A Philosophical History of Male Love. Inhaltsverzeichnis
