Love

ILHAM DILMAN is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea. He is the author of numerous philosophical books, including Morality and the Inner Life, A Study in Plato's Gorgias (1979), Quine on Ontology, Necessity and Experience (1984), A Trilogy of Freud: Freud and Human Nature (1983), Freud and the Mind (1984), Freud, Insight and Change (1988), Love and Human Separatenes (1987), Existentialist Critiques of Cartesianism (1993), Language and Reality: Modern Perspectives on Wittgenstein (1988).

"Dilman's rare combination of a keen analytical mind and a profound awareness of human experience has given us one of the better philosophical books on love." - Choice

• Detailed Contents Acknowledgements Preface Human Togetherness and the Reality of Other People Love and Hate: Are they Opposites? Forms of Love: Emotional Maturity and Reciprocity Conflicting Aspects of Sexual Love Revisited: Can They Be Reconciled? Proust: Sexual Love and Its Longing for Union Freud on Love and Sexuality: A Critique D.H. Lawrence: Sexual Love, a Vital Relationship Between Opposites Erich Fromm on 'Love as an Art' C.S. Lewis in Four Loves: Our Natural Loves C.S. Lewis in Four Loves: Charity and the Christian Love of God Kierkegaard on the Christian Injunction to Love One's Neighbour Kierkegaard on the Works of Love Bibliography Index