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Author Santangelo, Paolo, author.

Title The culture of love in China and Europe / by Paolo Santangelo, Gabor Boros
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 827 pages) : illustrations
Series Emotions and states of mind in East Asia, 1878-8084 ; volume 8
Emotions and states of mind in East Asia ; 8.
Contents Emotions and love : philosophical representation of passions : emotions and human nature in neo-Confucian thought -- Various facets of love in literary sources -- European philosophies of love -- Love in Western literature / Roberto Gigliucci
Summary In The Culture of Love in China and Europe Paolo Santangelo, Gábor Boros and Roberto Gigliucci offer a survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century. They describe parallel evolutions within the two cultures, and how innovatively these independent civilisations developed their own categories and myths to explain, exalt but also control the emotions of love and their behavioural expressions. The analyses contain rich materials for comparison, point out the universal and specific elements in each culture, and hint at differences and resemblances, without ignoring the peculiar beauty and attractive force of the texts cultivating love
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Love -- Social aspects -- China -- History
Love -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History
Love -- China -- Philosophy -- History
Love -- Europe -- Philosophy -- History
Love in literature.
Chinese literature -- History and criticism
European literature -- History and criticism
Chinese literature
European literature
Love in literature
Love -- Philosophy
Love -- Social aspects
China
Europe
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
Author Boros, Gábor, author.
Gigliucci, Roberto, author.
ISBN 9789004397835
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