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Love and the idea of Europe / Luisa Passerini ; translated by Juliet Haydock with Allan Cameron.
- Title
- Love and the idea of Europe / Luisa Passerini ; translated by Juliet Haydock with Allan Cameron.
- Author
- Passerini, Luisa
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
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Details
- Description
- x, 382 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "It has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in the 1960s when romantic love came to be seen as a universal sentiment that can be found in all cultures in the world. However, there remains the historical problem that the Europeans used this concept of love as a fundamental part of their self-image over a long period (traces of it still remain) and it became very much caught up in the concept of marriage. This book challenges the underlying Eurocentrism of this notion while exploring in a more general sense the connection between identity and emotions."--Publisher's website.
- Series Statement
- Remapping cultural history ; v. 9
- Uniform Title
- Storie d'amore e d'Europa. English
- Remapping cultural history v. 9.
- Alternative Title
- Storie d'amore e d'Europa.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally published under title: Storie d'amore e d'Europa.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-360) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Forms of Love and Limits of Europeanness: Intentions and Assumptions. -- Part 1: Male portraits. 'Free Love and Fraternity between the Federated Peoples of Europe' / Giorgio Quartara, Supporter of European Integration and Feminism ; 'Love Becomes Entangled with Civilisation' / Leo Ferrero, a Young European. -- Part 2: Europe's roots in love. Mediterranean Love ; The Heart of Europe: Love in the Western World / Denis de Rougemont. -- Part 3: Connecting Jewishness, Europeanness and love. 'Between Two Worlds' / Ansky's Dybbuk in France and Italy ; 'Notre Mère l'Europe' / Giorgina Levi and Heinz Arian.
- ISBN
- 9781845455224 (alk. paper)
- 1845455223 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008047739
- OCLC
- 272665350
- SCSB-12390239
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library