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