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    The nature of love.Irving Singer - 1966 - New York,: Random House.
    Does anyone still believe in romantic love? The enormous number of romance novels consumed by American women would seem to indicate that the faith lives on . ...
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  2. Philosophy of Love: A Partial Summing-Up.Irving Singer & Alan Soble - 2009 - MIT Press.
    In 1984, Irving Singer published the first volume of what would become a classic and much acclaimed trilogy on love. Trained as an analytical philosopher, Singer first approached his subject with the tools of current philosophical methodology. Dissatisfied by the initial results, he turned to the history of ideas in philosophy and the arts for inspiration. He discovered an immensity of speculation and artistic practice that reached wholly beyond the parameters he had been trained to consider truly philosophical. In his (...)
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  3. The Pursuit of Love.Irving Singer - 1994 - MIT Press.
    Preface to the Irving Singer library edition -- Preface -- Introduction: Love and meaning -- Two myths about love -- Persons, things, ideals -- Sexual love -- Love in society -- Religious love -- Civilization and autonomy -- Love, and do as you will.
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  4. The morality of sex: Contra Kant.Irving Singer - 2000 - Critical Horizons 1 (2):175-191.
    While much that is admirable in romanticism stems from Kant's philosophy,a better account of how sexuality can be an ethical possibility exceeds the cramped parameters that he imposes. His conception of marriage and its dependence upon a contractual exchange of rights may well be irremediable because of its formal emptinesses. His idea of human love as good will and an interest in the welfare of the beloved is defensible as far as it goes. But it does not go far enough (...)
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  5. The Nature of Love: Plato to Luther.Irving Singer - 1984 - Chicago: MIT Press.
    An analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers that include Plato, Ovid, ...
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    (1 other version)The Nature of Love: Plato to Luther.Irving Singer - 1968 - Philosophical Review 77 (4):519-521.
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    The Nature of Love: The Modern World.Irving Singer - 2009 - MIT Press.
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    The Nature of Love, Volume 3: The Modern World.Irving Singer - 1989 - University of Chicago Press.
    "In this concluding volume of his impressive study of the history of Western thought about the nature of love, Irving Singer reviews the principal efforts that have been made by 20th-Century thinkers to analyze the phenomenon of love.... [T]he bulk of the book is taken up with critical accounts of the modern thinkers who have systematically called into question the possibility itself of love as a union of distinct human selves. For the most part, these critiques are effectively executed, and (...)
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    The Nature of Love, Vol. 2: Courtly and Romantic.Irving Singer - 1988 - Noûs 22 (3):467-470.
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    The Creation of Value.Irving Singer - 1996 - MIT Press.
    Preface to the Irving Singer library edition -- Preface to the Johns Hopkins edition -- Preface -- Introduction: Our human predicament -- The meaning of life : rephrasing questions -- The meaning of death -- The creation of meaning -- Lives of meaning and significance -- Conclusion: The love of life.
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  11. (2 other versions)Meaning in Life: The Creation of Value.Irving Singer - 2009 - MIT Press.
    With a new preface by the authorWhat is meaning in life? Does anything really matter? How can a life achieve lasting significance? How can we explain the human propensity to struggle for ideals? How is meaning related to contentment, happiness, joy? Is meaning something we discover, or do we create it? What is the nature of value, and what are its sources in human experience? Can there be a meaning in life without religious faith? What is the meaning of death? (...)
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  12. Analyticity.Moreland Perkins & Irving Singer - 1951 - Journal of Philosophy 48 (16):485-497.
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    George Santayana, Literary Philosopher.Irving Singer - 2000 - Yale University Press.
    Singer points out that Santayana was a professional philosopher who addressed immediate problems of existence, a materialist in philosophy who believed in both a life of spirit and a life of reason, a product of American pragmatism who nevertheless rebelled against it, a Spaniard who wrote only in English, an American author who spent the last forty years of his life in different European countries.
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    The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel.George Santayana & Irving Singer - 1995 - Bradford.
    A novel of of ideas, expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden. Published in 1935, George Santayana's The Last Puritan was the American philosopher's only novel. It became an instant best-seller, immediately linked in its painful voyage of self discovery to The Education of Henry Adams. It is essentially a novel of ideas, expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden.The Last Puritan is volume four in a new critical edition of The Works (...)
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  15. News 127–138 information for contributors 139–140.Paul J. Olscamp, R. Jeffrey, Christopher Lake, Russell DiSilvestro & Irving Singer - 2004 - Journal of Value Inquiry 38:603-605.
     
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    The Definition of More Valuable.Moreland Perkins & Irving Singer - 1952 - Analysis 13 (6):140 - 143.
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  17. The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel. Critical Edition.George Santayana, Herman J. Saatkamp, William G. Holzberger & Irving Singer - 1995 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 31 (2):437-444.
     
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    A Philosophical Scrutiny of Religion.Irving Singer - 1954 - Philosophical Review 63 (3):445.
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    (1 other version)Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film.Irving Singer - 2008 - MIT Press.
    Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythology are both larger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world, and they tell us a good story. Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and intimate. Cinematic techniques--panning, tracking, zooming, and the other tools in the filmmaker's toolbox--create a world that is unlike reality and yet realistic at the same time. We are passive spectators, but we also have a personal relationship with (...)
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    Essays in Aesthetics.Irving Singer - 1965 - Philosophical Review 74 (3):401.
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    Explorations in Love and Sex.Irving Singer - 2001 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Beginning with a discussion of Kant, Schopenhauer, and others about the morality of sex and the morality of compassion, Explorations in Love and Sex offers a panoramic view of the philosophy of love from its beginnings in Plato up to the present. It examines the nature and limitations of sexual pluralism, and elaborates on Irving Singer's earlier ideas about appraisal and bestowal. The book's chapters are both philosophical and historical, and speak to general readers who wish to better understand the (...)
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  22. George Santayana, Literary Philosopher.Irving Singer - 2001 - Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 37 (4):656-660.
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    Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity.Irving Singer - 2009 - MIT Press.
    The development of themes, motifs, and techniques in Bergman's films, from the first intimations in the early work to the consummate resolutions in the final movies.
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  24. Mozart and Beethoven: The Concept of Love in Their Operas.Irving Singer - 1977 - MIT Press.
    Music, language, and drama come together in opera to make a whole that conveys emotional reality. In this book, Irving Singer develops a new mode for understanding and experiencing the operas of Mozart and Beethoven, approaching them not as a musical technician but as a philosopher concerned with their expressive and mythic elements. Using the distinction between the sensuous and the passionate as framework for his discussion, Singer explores not only the treatment of love in these operas but also the (...)
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    (1 other version)Modes of Creativity: Philosophical Perspectives.Irving Singer & Moreland Perkins - 2010 - MIT Press.
    Philosophical reflections on creativity in science, humanities, and human experience as a whole.
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  26. "Nuevas reflexiones sobre" El último puritano".Irving Singer & Carmen García Trevijano - 1997 - Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 16 (2):147-155.
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    Reality Transformed: Film as Meaning and Technique.Irving Singer - 1998 - MIT Press (MA).
    In Reality Transformed Irving Singer offers a new approach to the philosophy of film. Returning to the classical debate between realists and formalists, he shows how the opposing positions may be harmonized and united. He accepts the realist claim that films somehow "capture" reality, but agrees with the formalist belief that they transform it. Extending his earlier work on meaning in art and life, he suggests that the meaningfulness of movies derives from techniques that re-create reality in the process of (...)
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    Santayana's aesthetics.Irving Singer - 1957 - Cambridge,: Harvard University Press.
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    Santayana's aesthetics; a critical introduction.Irving Singer - 1957 - Westport, Conn.,: Greenwood Press.
    In this book the author presents Santayana's philosophical ideas and then attempts to present another approach to the same concepts.
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    (1 other version)Sex: A Philosophical Primer.Irving Singer - 2001 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    A philosophical primer designed for the general reader as well as professionals in various fields, this book studies sex in itself and in its relation to love and compassion. It distinguishes between 'sensuous' and 'passionate' elements of sexuality and shows how sex in human beings is both appetitive and interpersonal. It then explores the ways in which our sexuality is always subject to aesthetic and moral valuation in relation to the appetitive and interpersonal coordinates.
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    Santayana and the ontology of the photographic image.Irving Singer - 1977 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 36 (1):39-43.
  32. The aesthetics of “art for art’s sake”.Irving Singer - 1954 - Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 12 (3):343-359.
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    The Harmony of Nature and Spirit.Irving Singer - 1996 - MIT Press.
    Preface to the Irving Singer library edition -- Preface -- Introduction: Nature and spirit -- Schopenhauer's pendulum : is happiness possible? -- Beyond the suffering in life -- The nature and content of happiness -- Play and mere existence -- Living in nature -- Imagination and idealization -- Harmonization through art -- Art and spirituality -- The continuum of ends and means -- Aesthetic foundations of ethics and religion -- Conclusion: Love, meaning, happiness.
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    The Nature of Love: Courtly and Romantic.Irving Singer - 2009 - MIT Press.
    "Begins by studying love as appraisal and bestowal as well as imagination and idealization. Then examines the contrasting views of Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Ovid, Lucretius, Saint Augustine, Saint Thomas Aquinas, and Martin Luther. After having described the nature of erotic idealization, Singer analyzes the religious idealization in Judeo-Christian concepts of eros, philia, nomos, and agapē. Medieval Catholicism sought to combine these four ideas of love in the "caritas synthesis." Luther repudiated that attempt on the grounds that love exists only in (...)
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    Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir.Irving Singer - 2004 - MIT Press.
    Although Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Jean Renoir do not pontificate about "eternal verities or analytical niceties," as Irving Singer remarks in Three Philosophical Filmmakers, each expresses, through his work, his particular vision of reality. In this study of these great directors, Singer examines the ways in which meaning and technique interact within their different visions.Singer's account reveals Hitchcock, Welles, and Renoir to be not only consummate artists and inspired craftsmen but also sophisticated theorists of film and its place in (...)
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  36. Three Philosophical Filmmakers.Irving Singer - 2006 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (4):840-842.
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    Reflections on Poetry. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten's Meditationes philosophicae de nonnullis ad poema pertinentibus. [REVIEW]Irving Singer - 1955 - Philosophical Review 64 (1):154-155.
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    The Origins of Western IdeasThe Nature of Love: Plato to Luther. [REVIEW]John C. Moore & Irving Singer - 1968 - Journal of the History of Ideas 29 (1):141.
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    Montaigne's Discovert of Man. [REVIEW]Irving Singer - 1957 - Philosophical Review 66 (1):133-135.
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