Abstract:
A very wide one, which ranges from lust through to platonic devotion. One of the pleasures of the book was being able to include A. D. Hope’s ‘An Epistle’, which looks at the transcendental love that can follow a sexual relationship, a major strand in thinking about love. That’s not to say that transcendental love is best – I’m fairly much an in-the-body person myself. 1 didn’t want it all to be high thought. I wanted to look at the way people have fun with and feel miserable about love; the way in which sexual love in our society always runs the risk of having a strong undertow of fear, loathing and disgust which is not just to do with misogyny – though that is part of it.
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