{"product_id":"2940014014694","title":"THE EVOLUTION OF LOVE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                                                  PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE                                                              5\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION                                            9\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFIRST STAGE: THE SEXUAL INSTINCT                                    21\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSECOND STAGE: LOVE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I. THE BIRTH OF EUROPE                                            39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II. THE DEIFICATION OF WOMAN (FIRST FORM OF\u003cbr\u003e     METAPHYSICAL EROTICISM):--(_a_) The Love of the Troubadours;\u003cbr\u003e     (_b_) The Queen of Heaven; (_c_) Dante and Goethe;\u003cbr\u003e     (_d_) Michel Angelo                                           115\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. PERVERSIONS OF METAPHYSICAL EROTICISM:--\u003cbr\u003e     (_a_) The Brides of Christ; (_b_) Sexual Mystics              217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHIRD STAGE: THE BLENDING OF SEXUALITY AND LOVE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  I. THE LONGING FOR THE SYNTHESIS                                 231\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e II. THE LOVE-DEATH (SECOND FORM OF METAPHYSICAL EROTICISM)        251\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. THE CONFLICT BETWEEN SEXUALITY AND LOVE.--THE SEEKER\u003cbr\u003e     OF LOVE AND THE SLAVE OF LOVE                                 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e IV. THE REVENGE OF SEXUALITY.--THE DEMONIACAL AND THE OBSCENE     275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONCLUSION: THE PSYCHOGENETIC LAW.--THE INDIVIDUAL AS AN\u003cbr\u003e     EPITOME OF THE HUMAN RACE                                     284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince the triumphant days of the Mechanists some twenty-five years ago,\u003cbr\u003ethe wedge of Pragmatism--a useful tool to be used and discarded--has\u003cbr\u003ebeen driven between materialism and idealism, and it appears that the\u003cbr\u003ewhole tendency of philosophy is now in the latter direction. Even in\u003cbr\u003eEngland the influence of Bergson has led modern thought away from the\u003cbr\u003epure materialism of the monists, and it seems probable that Benedetto\u003cbr\u003eCroce's _Philosophy of the Spirit_ will carry the movement a step nearer\u003cbr\u003etowards the idealistic concept of reality. And among the latest signs of\u003cbr\u003ethe new tendency must be counted the brilliant work of Emil Lucka, the\u003cbr\u003eyoung Austrian \"poet-philosopher,\" whose conception of the development\u003cbr\u003eof love must rank with the most daring speculations in recent\u003cbr\u003epsychology.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the great reaction of the last century, love, that most cogent motive\u003cbr\u003eof human thought and action, fell from its high estate and came to be\u003cbr\u003eregarded as an instinct not differing in any essential from hunger and\u003cbr\u003ethirst, and existing, like them, from the beginning, eternal and\u003cbr\u003eimmutable, manifesting itself with equal force in the heart of man and\u003cbr\u003ewoman, and impelling them towards each other. But Emil Lucka, in his\u003cbr\u003eremarkable new book, _The Three Stages of Love_ (which was recently\u003cbr\u003epublished in Berlin, and has already created a sensation in literary\u003cbr\u003ecircles abroad), leads us on to speculative heights from which we may\u003cbr\u003elook back upon the whole theory of evolution not as a bar but as a\u003cbr\u003ebridge. \"My book is intended as a monograph of the emotional life of the\u003cbr\u003ehuman race,\" he says in the preface, and \"I am prepared to meet with\u003cbr\u003erejection rather than with approval.\" There has been abundance of\u003cbr\u003ecriticism and controversy, but Lucka has stated his case and drawn his\u003cbr\u003econclusions with such admirable precision and logic, that his work has\u003cbr\u003earoused admiration and appreciation even in the ranks of his opponents.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove is a theme which at all times and in all countries has been of\u003cbr\u003eprimary interest to men and women, and therefore this book, which throws\u003cbr\u003ean illuminating ray of light in many a dark place still wrapped in\u003cbr\u003emystery and silence, not only impresses the psychologist, but also\u003cbr\u003efascinates the general reader with its wealth of interesting detail and\u003cbr\u003echarm of expression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three vitally important points which the author develops are as\u003cbr\u003efollows:--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove is not a primary instinct, but has been gradually evolved in\u003cbr\u003ehistorical time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eErnst Haeckel's biogenetic law is expanded in a psychogenetic law.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOnly man's emotions have undergone evolution, and therefore have a\u003cbr\u003ehistory, while those of woman have experienced no change.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLucka's book will probably not please the advanced feminists, but the\u003cbr\u003edelicate, although perhaps involuntary homage to her sex which is\u003cbr\u003eimplied in his theories ought to rouse a feeling of gratification in the\u003cbr\u003eheart of every right-feeling woman. The very limitations and\u003cbr\u003erestrictions which he lays upon her raise and glorify her. For while man\u003cbr\u003ehas been the \"Odysseus wandering through heaven and hell, passing from\u003cbr\u003ethe bestial to the divine to return again and become human, woman has\u003cbr\u003ealways been the same, unchangeable and without problems.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47073897775344,"sku":"2940014014694","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014014694_p0.jpg?v=1763599142","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014014694","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}