by Denis de Rougemont · Editorial Kairós SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472452763
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In "Love in the Western World", Denis de Rougemont explores the Western conception of love through the analysis of the myth of Tristan and Isolde. The author examines the religious origins of this myth, relating it to passion, mysticism, literature, war, adultery, action, and marriage. Rougemont reveals how Western love, often idealized, is intrinsically linked to death and suffering, and how this contradiction influences our culture and our relationships.
Denys Louis de Rougemont, known as Denis de Rougemont, was a Swiss writer and cultural theorist who wrote in French. One of the non-conformists of the 1930s, he addressed the perils of totalitarianism from a Christian point of view. After the Second World War, he promoted European federalism.
