The Urgency of Changing Our Thinking about Eros In Atlanta recently, a man broke into the apartment of his former girlfriend and brutally murdered both her and her new lover with an axe.
The Urgency of Changing Our Thinking about Eros.- 1. The Centrality of Eros in the Project of Defining Meaning for Human Beings.- 2. Reassessing Assumptions and Methods in the Study of Eros.- I A Phenomenology of the Experience of Eros.- One Eros as Transformation.- Two After the Awakening.- Three Sexuality and Infatuation.- Four Fear of Eros and the Fragmentation of Consciousness.- II Eros in Its Broader Existential and Cultural Context.- Five The Destruction of Eros.- Six The Obsession with Eros as Pointing beyond Itself.- Seven Eros and the Value of Being.- Conclusion.- References.