The Poetics of Tenderness: On Falling in Love

by Robert Cantwell

Book Overview

The Poetics of Tenderness a literary-critical essay on love, grounded in the developmental theory of the British psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and shaped by recent work on the neurobiology and anthropology of love. It maintains that sexual love is not merely an artifact or "invention" of culture, but a vital manifestation of the culture-making power itself. Calling upon Andreus Capellanus, Plato, Schopenhauer, Freud, William James, Hardy, Dreiser...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498548350
• ISBN13: 9781498548359
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"