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The Amorous Heart - An Unconventional History of Love (Hardcover)
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The Amorous Heart - An Unconventional History of Love (Hardcover)
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The symmetrical, exuberant heart is everywhere: it gives shape to
candy, pendants, the frothy milk on top of a cappuccino, and much
else. How can we explain the ubiquity of what might be the most
recognizable symbol in the world? In The Amorous Heart, Marilyn
Yalom tracks the heart metaphor and heart iconography across two
thousand years, through Christian theology, pagan love poetry,
medieval painting, Shakespearean drama, Enlightenment science, and
into the present. She argues that the symbol reveals a tension
between love as romantic and sexual on the one hand, and as
religious and spiritual on the other. Ultimately, the heart symbol
is a guide to the astonishing variety of human affections, from the
erotic to the chaste and from the unrequited to the conjugal.
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