Love as Passion

The Codification of Intimacy

Niklas Luhmann, Jeremy Gaines, Doris L. Jones (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

1986
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-0077-2 (ISBN)

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In this important book Niklas Luhmann - one of the leading social thinkers of the late 20th century - analyses the emergence of ?love' as the basis of personal relationships in modern societies. He argues that, while family systems remained intact in the transition from traditional to modern societies, a semantics for love developed to accommodate extra-marital relationships; this semantics was then transferred back into marriage and eventually transformed marriage itself. Drawing on a diverse range of historical and literary sources, Luhmann retraces the emergence and evolution of the special semantics of passionate love that has come to form the basis of modern forms of intimacy and personal relationships. This classic book by Luhmann has been widely recognized as a work of major importance. It is an outstanding contribution to social theory and it provides an original and illuminating perspective on the nature of modern marriage and sexuality.

Preface to the English Edition 1

Introduction 8

1 Society and Individual 12
Personal and Impersonal Relationships

2 Love as a Generalized Symbolic Medium of Communication 18

3 The Evolution of Communicative Capacities 34

4 The Evolution of the Semantics of Love 41

5 Freedom to Love 48
From the Ideal to the Paradox

6 The Rhetoric of Excess and the Experience of Instability 58

7 From Galantry to Friendship 76

8 Plaisir and Amour 84
The Primary Difference

9 Love versus Reason 94

10 En Route to Individualization 97
A State of Ferment in the Eighteenth Century

11 The Incorporation of Sexuality 109

12 The Discovery of Incommunicability 121

13 Romantic Love 129

14 Love and Marriage 145
The Ideology of Reproduction

15 What Now? 155
Problems and Alternatives

16 Love as a System of Interpenetration 172

Notes 179

Index 240

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.9.1986
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 227 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-0077-8 / 0745600778
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-0077-2 / 9780745600772
Zustand	Neuware