Love As Passion: The Codification of Intimacy (Cultural Memory in the Present)

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Summary: The code of love
Review: Born in 1927, Niklas Luhmann died in 1998 leaving one of the most comprehensive works on sociology. Professor in Bielefeld, but graduated in law, he was a phenomenon: Ph.D. "honoris causa" by his writings, he developed the basis for new aproach in social theory. This work, as the tittle says, is about the codification of intimancy; undestanding love as a communication medium, Luhmann sees in his social use a form of making people to get closer; moreover, love as a code can be taken as part of the way love game occurs. If this is so, each time of history should read the code love differently. The code "love as passion" emerged in the France of the 18th century, suffering transformations when exported to Germany ("Sturm und Drang" movement in arts turns love into some individual feeling)and to England (Victorian morals separate marriage from love). To be read in one aftenoon...

Rating:
Summary: The code of love
Review: Born in 1927, Niklas Luhmann died in 1998 leaving one of the most comprehensive works on sociology. Professor in Bielefeld, but graduated in law, he was a phenomenon: Ph.D. "honoris causa" by his writings, he developed the basis for new aproach in social theory. This work, as the tittle says, is about the codification of intimancy; undestanding love as a communication medium, Luhmann sees in his social use a form of making people to get closer; moreover, love as a code can be taken as part of the way love game occurs. If this is so, each time of history should read the code love differently. The code "love as passion" emerged in the France of the 18th century, suffering transformations when exported to Germany ("Sturm und Drang" movement in arts turns love into some individual feeling)and to England (Victorian morals separate marriage from love). To be read in one aftenoon...