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Conditions of Love

Conditions of Love

The Philosophy of Intimacy

Summary

Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?'

Drawing on writers and thinkers as diverse as Plato, Tolstoy, Freud and Stendhal, John Armstrong explores how our perception of love is formed by culture and history.

For anyone who believes or disbelieves in love.

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John Armstrong

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