Falling in Love with Love is Falling for Make Believe

Ideologies of Romance in Post-Enlightenment Culture

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ID2353576
AuthorsMary Evans (0000-0003-1164-9932, corresponding author), Mary F Evans (0000-0003-3812-5848)
Year1998
Volume15
Issue3-4
Pages265-275
Publication date1998-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263276498015003012
OpenAlexW2045414490
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited2

This article suggests that an understanding of love which allowed for a rational discourse about human relationships was proposed at the time of the Enlightenment but was subsequently contested and replaced by an ideology of romantic love. Romantic love, far from emancipating human understanding and behaviour, trapped individuals in a narrow and often negative set of expectations and aspirations

Aesthetics · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Falling (accident · Falling in love · Ideology · Philosophy of love · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Computer Science · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Social Psychology

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