Chaos of love. History of feelings from feast to Quir

Xi Di Rive is an American philosopher, translator of Plato and Aristotle. In addition to ancient philosophy, Rive is engaged in the philosophy of sex and love, which this book is dedicated to. Rive explores a wide range of topics and problems - sexual violence, sadomasochism, perversions, pornography - showing how our love ideas are born at their intersection. Riva accompanies its analysis not only with references to the research of sexologists and queers theoretic, but also unexpected illustrations from such classical works as the "fathers and children" of Turgenev or the unbearable ease of being "Milan Kunderey. Separately, Riva is interested in irreversible evolution towards the increasing genderfluidism and plasticity of our sexual experience.
"Chaos of Love" is a collection of ten essays, in which the author combines a deep knowledge of ancient texts ("Iliad" Homer, Platonovsky "Pir, and so on) with Freudian psychoanalysis, Lacan"s concepts, sociology of the intimate life of Anthony Hyddens, the sociology of the intimate life, Forcing us to think about how we determine our bodily and think about our past and future partners