For World Book Day: Prof. Dr. Reiner Matzker: Love and Loving – Reflections from the 20th and 21st Centuries

Description

We know what it means to love. But we don't even know if love truly exists: This short essay on love in our time and the past does not offer an exhaustive contribution to our understanding of love. It illustrates the light and dark sides of romantic life. And it allows for interpretations that, based on diverse experiences, strive to objectify love. In literature, visual arts, music, and film. The often lovingly engaged and insightful thoughts that empathetically and thoughtfully accompany love represent only a modest attempt to liberate love itself from pure idealization and blind trust (in love). If, in some places, the enchanting aspects are diminished by an over-enthusiasm, this is due to the fact that the described and disenchanting tipping points of love are part of the very nature of it.

This essayistic book is aimed at both the general public and a specialist audience. Prof. Dr. Reiner Matzker is a communication scientist and freelance writer. He lives in Bremen.

Where and when

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