Love as Passion : The Codification of Intimacy

Preface to the English Edition 1(7) Introduction 8(4) 1 Society and Individual Personal and Impersonal Relationships 12(6) 2 Love as a Generalized Symbolic Medium of Communication 18(16) 3 The Evolution of Communicative Capacities 34(7) 4 The Evolution of the Semantics of Love 41(7) 5 Freedom to Love From the Ideal to the Paradox 48(10) 6 The Rhetoric of Excess and the Experience of Instability 58(18) 7 From Galantry to Friendship 76(8) 8 Plaisir and Amour The Primary Difference 84(10) 9 Love versus Reason 94(3) 10 En Route to Individualization A State of Ferment in the Eighteenth Century 97(12) 11 The Incorporation of Sexuality 109(12) 12 The Discovery of Incommunicability 121(8) 13 Romantic Love 129(16) 14 Love and Marriage The Ideology of Reproduction 145(10) 15 What Now? Problems and Alternatives 155(17) 16 Love as a System of Interpenetration 172(7) Notes 179(61) Index 240