Building on concepts developed in his previously published New Theory of Beauty, Guy Sircello constructs a bold and provocative theory of love in which the objects of love are the qualities that and “bear and ” beauty and the pleasure of all love is and “erotic, and ” without being and “sexual. and ” The theory reveals a continuity of subject matter between premodern notions of love and modern notions of aesthetic pleasure, thus providing grounds for criticizing modern tendencies to isolate the aesthetic both culturally and psychologically and to separate it from its home in the human body.The author begins with an analysis of enjoyment that reduces all enjoyment to the enjoyment of the and “experience of qualities. and ” He explains how we experience qualities as and “circulating and ” in a special form of and “space and ” that includes our own bodies, the external world, and their interpenetration. Sircello generalizes this analysis to encompass all forms of love and grounds the pleasure of all love–aesthetic or nonaesthetic, personal or nonpersonal, sexual or nonsexual–in an experience of the form of an and “overall bodily caress. and “Originally published in 1989.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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