内容简介

The author of the national bestseller The Closing of the American Mind offers a provocative indictment of the devaluing of love and intimacy in today's culture. Allan Bloom explores the language of love from the Bible to Freud, shedding penetrating light on the true nature of our most basic human connections. "(A) rich mine of a book".--New York Daily News.

作品目录

Introduction: The Fall of Eros 13

Pt. 1 Rousseau and the Romantic Project 37

1 Rousseau 39

2 Stendhal, The Red and the Black 157

3 Austen, Pride and Prejudice 191

4 Flaubert, Madame Bovary 209

5 Tolstoy, Anna Karenina 231

6 Conclusion 259

Pt. 2 Shakespeare and Nature 267

Introduction 269

7 Romeo and Juliet 273

8 Antony and Cleopatra 297

9 Measure for Measure 327

10 Troilus and Cressida 347

11 The Winter's Tale 375

12 Conclusion 393

Interlude on Two Strange Couples: Hal and Falstaff, Montaigne and La Boetie 399

Pt. 3 The Ladder of Love 429

Epilogue 547

Notes 553

Index 565