Les philosophes et l'amour: aimer de Socrate à Simone de Beauvoir

Les philosophes et l'amour: aimer de Socrate à Simone de Beauvoir

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Un lieu commun solidement établi veut qu'amour et philosophie fassent mauvais ménage. Etrangement, aucun livre n'avait jusqu'ici réuni les différents regards des grands philosophes sur ce sujet majeur. Cet essai se propose de le faire en exposant leur pensée de façon vivante et accessible.

Ouverture à l'éternité pour Platon, l'amour est un leurre mortel chez Lucrèce. Défi...more
246 pages
Published April 28th 2008 by Plon (first published January 1st 2008)
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Clare
Review posted on my blog at http://inputs.wordpress.com/2012/06/0...

I was prompted to read this book by Alain Badiou’s reference to it in his essay In Praise of Love. Written by two female journalists working for the prominent French intellectual and cultural weekly Le Nouvel Observateur, this book is a lively, well-written and often subtly ironic account aimed at an educated general public.

The authors point out that love and philosophy have never made happy bed fellows with philosophers engagin...more
Marios
Mon type de livre préféré; vies et oeuvres des grands hommes et femmes et leur opinions sur un sujet compliqué...et quoi de plus compliqué que l'amour!

Devrait-on idéaliser l'amour comme disait Socrates, ou le tuer préventivement avec d'hédonisme exsessif comme Lucretius proposait? Devrait-on préserver le bonheur grec ancien d'une ataraxie stoicienne ou céder à l'instabilité d'éros?
La vie personelle de Montaigne m'a absolument surpris(Montaigne le Don Juan!), de Rousseau aussi, son inconsistance...more
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