24.261 | Fall 2004 | Undergraduate

Philosophy of Love in the Western World

Readings

Required Readings

Bédier, Joseph. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. ISBN: 0679750169.

Molière. Don Juan. Translated by Neil Bartlett. London: Oberon, 2004. ISBN: 1840024399.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner. New York: Vintage Books, 1967. ISBN: 0394703693.

Shaw, George Bernard. George Bernard Shaw’s Plays. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. ISBN: 0393977536.

Singer, Irving. Explorations in Love and Sex. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001. ISBN: 074251238X.

———. The Pursuit of Love. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. ISBN: 0801852404.

———. “Marriage: Same-Sex and Opposite-Sex.” In Sex: A Philosophical Primer. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004. ISBN: 0742512371.

———. “Two Essays on the Don Juan Myth in Molière.” MIT Publications in the Humanities, 1972.

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