A Philosophical History of Love explores the importance and
development of love in the Western world. Wayne Cristaudo argues
that love is a materializing force, a force consisting of various
distinctive qualities or spirits. He argues that we cannot
understand Western civilization unless we realize that, within its
philosophical and religious heritage, there is a deep and profound
recognition of love's creative and redemptive power. Cristaudo
explores philosophical love (the love of wisdom) and the love of
God and neighbor. The history of the West is equally a history of
phantasmic versions of love and the thwarting of love. Thus, the
history of our hells may be seen as the history of love's
distortions and the repeated pseudo-victories of our preferences
for the phantasms of love. Cristaudo argues that the catastrophes
from our phantasmic loves threaten to extinguish us, forcing us
repeatedly to open ourselves to new possibilities of love, to new
spirits. Fusing philosophy, literature, theology, psychology, and
anthropology, the volume reviews major thinkers in the field, from
Plato and Freud, to Pierce, Shakespeare, and Flaubert. Cristaudo
explores the major themes of love of the Church, romantic love and
the return of the feminine, the conflict between familial and
romantic love, love in a meaningless world and the love of evil,
and the evolutionary idea of love. With Cristaudo, the reader
embarks on a journey not just through time, but also through the
different kinds, origins, and spirits of love.
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