Irving Singer

Biographic Data

ID1014103
NAMEIrving Singer
GIVEN NAMESIrving
FAMILY NAMESinger
SIGNATURESINGER I
AFFILIATIONSMassachusetts Institute of Technology
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS27
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT27
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1954
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX1

  • The nature of love

    Irving SingerBOOKThe nature of love2009

    "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 id…

  • Cinematic mythmaking: Philosophy in Film

    Irving SingerBOOKCinematic mythmaking2008

    "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, bu…

  • Three philosophical filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir

    Irving SingerBOOKThree philosophical filmmakers2004

    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 …

  • George Santayana, Literary Philosopher

    H T Kirby-Smith, H T Kirby‐Smith et al.ARTICLEThe New England Quarterly2001

    George Santayana wrote not only important works of philosophy but also a novel, poetry and much literary criticism. In this portrait of Santayana's thought and complex personality, Irvine Singer explores the full range of his harmonisation of the literary and the philosophical

  • George Santayana: Literary Philosopher

    Irving SingerBOOKGeorge Santayana, literary…2000

    "George Santayana" published on by Yale University Press.

  • The Morality of Sex: Contra Kant

    Irving SingerARTICLECritical Horizons2000Cited by: 1

    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 i…

  • George Santayana, literary philosopher

    Irving SingerBOOKGeorge Santayana, literary…2000

    George Santayana, for almost sixty years before his death in 1952, combined literary and philosophical talents, writing not only important works of philosophy but also a best-selling novel, volumes of poetry, and much literary criticism. In this portrait of Santayana's thought and complex personality, Irving Singer explores the full range of his harmonization of the literary and the philosophical.". "Singer shows how Santayana's genius consisted …

  • The Pursuit of Love

    Irving Singer, Emily SingerBOOKThe pursuit of love1995

    In his widely acclaimed trilogy, The Nature of Love, Irving Singer traced the development of the concept of love in history and literature from the Greeks to the twentieth century. Now, in a sequel to his previous work, Singer offers a different approach. A "systematic mapping" of the various facets of love, the present volume is an extended essay that offers a philosophical and psychiatric theory of his own. From sexual love to religious love, f…

  • Meaning in Life: The Creation of Value

    Stephen Vicchio, Irving SingerARTICLEModern Language Notes1994

  • The Nature of Love, Vol. II: Courtly and Romantic

    Jo-Ann Pilardi, Irving SingerARTICLEModern Language Notes1985

  • Mozart and Beethoven, the Concept of Love in Their Operas

    James S Ruccolo, Irving SingerARTICLEGerman Studies Review1978

  • Mozart & Beethoven: The Concept of Love in their Operas

    Richard Macksey, Irving SingerARTICLEModern Language Notes1977

  • Death in Venice: Visconti and Mann

    Irving SingerARTICLEModern Language Notes1976

  • Erotic Transformations in the Legend of Dido and Aeneas

    Irving SingerARTICLEModern Language Notes1975

  • The Goals of Human Sexuality

    Robert N Whitehurst, Irving SingerARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1974

  • Andreas Capellanus: A Reading of the Tractatus

    Irving SingerARTICLEModern Language Notes1973

  • Periodicity of sexual desire in relation time of ovulation in women

    Open AccessIrving Singer, Josephine SingerARTICLEJournal of Biosocial Science1972

  • Types of female orgasm

    Josephine Singer, Irving SingerARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research1972Cited by: 13References: 4

  • The Shadow of Dom Juan in Moliere

    Irving SingerARTICLEModern Language Notes1970

  • The Nature of Love: Plato to Luther

    William J Wainwright, Irving SingerARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1968

  • The Origins of Western Ideas

    John C Moore, Irving SingerARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1968

  • Essays in Aesthetics

    Irving Singer, Jean-Paul Sartre et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1965

  • Santayana's Aesthetics

    G E Myers, Irving SingerARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1960

  • Santayana's Aesthetics

    Morris Weitz, Irving SingerARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1959

  • Montaigne's Discovery of Man

    Irving Singer, Donald M Frame et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1957