Authors'' Preface List of Figures Part 1: China Paolo Santangelo Introductory Notes 1 Emotions and Love. Philosophical Representation of Passions: Emotions and Human Nature in Neo-Confucian Thought Basic Terms and Notions Concerning the Idea of "Love" Chinese Notions Ascribable to the Concepts of Love Passions and Love Passion ( Qing ) Qing : a Short Historical Survey The "Romantics" in the Medieval Period The Cosmologists. The Concept of Psychophysical Nature and the Principle-Desires Scheme in the School of Principles Wang Yangming Rehabilitation of Emotions and Desires. Ideological Basis for a Cult of Passions Developments of the Schools of Mind From Ming to Qing The Cult of Passions during the Qing Dynasty Two Main Trends and Domestication of Passions2 Various Facets of Love in Literary Sources The So-Called Cult of Passions in Literary Works The ''True Emotions'' and ''True Love'' Love Winning Death: Mythical and Supernatural Elements The "Mutual Love Tree" Destiny and Predestined Love Two Treatises on Love: the "History of Love" ( Qingshi leilüe ) and De Amore In Search of a New Morality Love, Desire and Lust Seduction: Breaches, Temptations and Loneliness The Rhetoric of Gendered Seduction Body and Beauty: the Language of Body as Seductive Language Love-Affection as Moral Sentiment: Conjugal Love and Its Antagonists Gender''s Roles in Love. New and Old Images of Heroines and Heroes Femme fatale Illicit and Practical Loves. Love as a Food The Dark and Surreal Sides of Love. Eros and Death Passions are Like Dreams. Between Social Limitations and Dream Freedom3 Concluding Remarks and Bibliography to Part 1 Concluding Remarks Bibliography to Part 1 Part 2: Europe Gábor Boros 4 European Philosophies of Love - General Introduction Preface 1 Historical Introduction 2 Philosophical Introduction - Sources, Ideas, Terminology5 The Scholastic Period 1 Love of God According to Bernard of Clairvaux 2 Peter Abelard''s Calamities of Love 3 Andreas Capellanus and Love''s Labours in His On Love 4 Thomas Aquinas'' Systematised Christian Concept of Love 5 Facets of Love in Literary Sources: Courtly Love6 Christian and Jewish, Florentine and Neapolitan Versions of Neoplatonism 1 Marsilio Ficino''s Commentaries on Plato''s Texts on Love 2 Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: a Platonic Discourse on Love - in Exposition of a Sonnet by Girolamo Benivieni 3 Leone Ebreo''s Dialogues of Love 4 The Dissolution of the Christian-Platonic Tradition of Love: Castiglione, Bruno 5 Facets of Love in Literary Sources: 14th-17th Century7 Concepts of Love in the 17th Century 1 Concepts of Love in the Early 17th Century Religious Renovation and in the Passage from Traditional Physiology to the Mechanical Science-based Medicine (Jacques Ferrand, and Francis of Sales, Fénelon and Mme Guyon) 2 Metaphysic-based Concepts of Love in the 17th Century8 Enlightenments: Naturalizing Concepts of Love 1 Hume''s Philosophy of Love: Sympathy Based on Experimental Natural Law 2 French Enlightenment 3 Kant''s Concepts of Love, Marriage and Friendship from Traditional Natural Law Perspective9 The Beginnings of Romanticism 1 Facets of Love in Literary Sources: Schlegel''s and Goethe''s Respective Versions of Romantic Concepts of Love 2 Hegel and the Impossibility to Find a Place for Love within the Rational State 3 Facets of Love in Literary Sources: Stendhal On Love 4 Kierkegaard''s Ultimate Concept of Love in His The Works of Love Bibliography to Part 2 Conclusion Index.