# The Nature of Love, Volume 1

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- Authors: [Irving Singer](https://www.bookquiver.com/irving-singer)
- Publisher: the_mit_press
- ISBN: 978-02-6251-272-5
- Pages: 404
- Published: 2009-02-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An analysis of concepts of bestowal, appraisal, imagination, and idealization followed by explorations into the writings of thinkers that include Plato, Ovid, and Martin Luther. Irving Singer's trilogy The...