Love. Inspiring journey through the multifaceted world of love. Epstein M.

The multidimensional world of love is revealed in the book of Mikhail Epstein with encyclopedic breadth and lyrical inspiration. With extreme frankness, the nature of erotic and sexual, of sensual fantasies, about the sacraments of carnal knowledge is indicated. The book is rich in aphoristic definitions of different shades of love feeling. The author considers desire, pleasure, seduction, inspiration, tenderness, pain, jealousy, turning to the ideas of dialogical and structural poetics, existential psychology, philosophical anthropology. Much attention is paid to the analysis of the language of love. Among the interlocutors of the author are Plato and Spinoza, Freud and G. Marcuse, I. Bunin and V. Nabokov, M. Bulgakov and M. Prushin, R. Bart and Yu. Lotman. The book is intended for readers looking for an understanding of love in the context of modern humanitarian thought.