...This chapter examines two contradictory aspects of eros in Pericles' life. In the Greek world, eros did not correspond to any romantic sentiment, nor did it bear any similarity to the wishy-washy notion nowadays conjured up by “love.” Whether homosexual...

...This chapter addresses the meaning of “eternal love.” This love is a trace of eternity. It is the presence of eternity in time. It is the revelation of a certain kind of “now”—the discovery of that “now” which signifies “always.” It is the suspension of time. If “now” means as much as “always...

..., focusing on Ginzburg's quest for a new kind of writing adequate to her times. The book provides examples of universal experiences—frustrated love, professional failures, remorse, aging—and explores the modern fragmentation of identity in the context of war, terror, and an oppressive state. Searching...

... dispensation of Milton's epic: of how love between human beings, here exemplified in marital love, enables the love of God; of the experience of spiritual goods that exceed finite temporal ones; of hope for an existence beyond the finitude of death. Christianity devils demons fallen angels empires envy...

...This chapter focuses on Hamlet's imagination and his accomplishments as a poet. It begins with the love poetry that Hamlet writes for Ophelia. The chapter then turns to consider the before, during, and after of Hamlet's attempt to adapt The Murder of Gonzago with a view to catching...

...The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. This book explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. The book also looks...

...This chapter examines Edward Carpenter's utopian vision, and specifically his belief that the path to utopia would be blazed by what he called Uranians. Carpenter coined the term “Uranian,” or “Urning,” to describe the man-loving men and women-loving women who he believed were the advance guard...

...This chapter proposes an account of love that holds it to be largely a matter of vision and to be in large part guided by reason, while at the same time allowing that love is not purely a matter of reason. This view of love is referred to as the vision view. It sets out eight theses at the core...

...This chapter explains that we have already seen that love encourages the lover to be effectively blind to a great many properties of and facts about people other than her beloved—facts and properties that if attached to her beloved, would command her attention and in many cases matter a great deal...

...This chapter argues that the perceived tension between loving persons and valuing the qualities and other properties that attach to persons is largely ungrounded. In particular, we need not worry that valuing those properties must necessarily imply that the person herself is not being valued...

..., Epicurean register. What Jean-Jacques Rousseau attempts, more strenuously than any other thinker of the period, is an extraordinary synthesis of Epicurean, Augustinian, and Stoic argumentative currents. In common with the modern Epicureans, Rousseau uses claims about self-love to illuminate all areas...

... Plautus shepherds Victorinus Marius Seneca style description honor love Philomena Buvalelli Laura argument Catullus paradox Sappho Bible wound emotion icy fire places of memory marriage divided self God Medea translation adultery healing powers of the lady Aristotle classic...

... manly counterpart. The chapter explores how two women authors, Vittoria Colonna and Tullia d'Aragona, sever the links that unite grace and beauty in male discourse. In Colonna's love poetry (ca. 1525–1535), grace resists semantic absorption into refined womanly appearances and rhetoric and turns...

... the basic notation for elastic waves before discussing the solutions for plane waves. It also considers surface waves and Love waves. Navier equations waves Lamé constants modulus bulk Poisson’s ratio Young’s modulus Helmholtz representation dispersion relations elastic waves Navier equations...

...This chapter discusses informal evangelical theologies that fused the circulation of human love and Divine Love into a basis for U.S. Christian globalism. It begins by clarifying how nineteenth-century Christians came to understand childhood innocence as a shared attribute of humankind. Without...

...This chapter discusses Augustine of Hippo's grammar of hope while considering its correlation to faith and love. In The Enchiridion, Augustine offers his most systematic and influential account of hope, explaining the relations among faith, hope, and love and devoting a section...

...This chapter looks into the otherworldliness within Augustine of Hippo's texts. It discusses Augustine's famous and controversial belief known as the “order of love” (ordo amoris). Augustine's participationist ontology highlights how his order of love is simultaneously focused...

...This chapter looks into the distinctions in Augustine of Hippo's order of love in an effort to reconstruct his implicit order of hope. According to Augustine, hope depends fundamentally on the movement of love. Moreover, Augustine allows a robust hope for temporal goods as long as it is rightly...

... future good. His work Confessions illustrates how Augustine encourages hope in God and human neighbors. While Augustine may consider hope primarily as a form of love, the concept cannot be understood fully without also considering its complex relation to faith. The chapter also notes...

...This chapter presents that the maximizing requirement requires a lover to constantly compare the object of her love with others and ask whether she really has managed to focus her love on the best possible object. It expresses a view of rational evaluative thought that places such thought...