Eros. Between love and sexuality

The multidimensional world of love is revealed in the book of Mikhail Epstein with encyclopedic breadth and lyrical inspiration. This is a kind of educational course in erotica, which most of us missed for various reasons at school called "Life". The author considers desire, pleasure, seduction, inspiration, tenderness, pain, jealousy, turning to the ideas of dialogical and structural poetics, existential psychology, philosophical anthropology. Among the interlocutors of the author are Plato and Spinoza, Freud and G. Marcuse, I. Bunin and V. Nabokov, M. Bulgakov and M. Prushin, R. Bart and Yu. Lotman. The book is intended for readers trying to understand the phenomenon of love in the context of modern humanitarian thought. Mikhail Epstein is a famous philologist, philosopher, professor of universities of Emory (USA) and Darema (Great Britain) Another book of the same author "Is Freud right? Language languages" further expands the horizon of erotology, addressing the themes of carnal knowledge, love imagination and language