Finn Bowring is Senior Lecturer of Sociology at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of Science, Seeds and Cyborgs: Biotechnology and the Appropriation of Life (2003) and Hannah Arendt: An Introduction (2011).

Dedication
Epigraph

Introduction: Love is Love is Love.

1. Eros in Ancient Athens
2. Platonic Love
3. Courtly Love
4. Affective Individualism and the Conjugal Family
5. Novel Passions
6. Lawrence's Love
7. The Classical Sociology of Love
8. Religion, Rationality and Eroticism in Max Weber
9. Love in Late Modernity

Conclusion: Reclaiming the Romantic Imaginary

References
Index