{"product_id":"love-in-the-western-world-9780691013930","title":"Love in the Western World","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this classic work  often described as \"The History of the Rise  Decline  and Fall of the Love Affair \" Denis de Rougemont explores the psychology of love from the legend of Tristan and Isolde to Hollywood. At the heart of his ever-relevant inquiry is the inescapable conflict in the West between marriage and passion--the first associated with social and religious responsiblity and the second with anarchic  unappeasable love as celebrated by the troubadours of medieval Provence. These early poets  according to de Rougemont  spoke the words of an Eros-centered theology  and it was through this \"heresy\" that a European vocabulary of mysticism flourished and that Western literature took on a new direction.  Bringing together historical  religious  philosophical  and cultural dimensions  the author traces the evolution of Western romantic love from its literary beginnings as an awe-inspiring secret to its commercialization in the cinema. He seeks to restore the myth of love to its original integrity and concludes with a philosophical perspective on modern marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279572492341,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691013934","price":41.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691013930.jpg?v=1780602591","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/love-in-the-western-world-9780691013930","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}