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Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status, acknowledging its moral dangers while arguing that it is, at heart, a moral phenomenon--an emotion that demands empathy and calls us away from excessive self-concern. Love is revealed as neither wholly moral nor deeply immoral, neither purely rational nor profoundly irrational. Rather, as Diotima says in Plato's Symposium, love is "something in between." Jollimore makes his case by proposing a "vision" view of love, according to which loving is a way of seeing that involves bestowing charitable attention on a loved one. This view recognizes the truth in the cliché "love is blind," but holds that love's blindness does not undermine the idea that love is guided by reason. Reasons play an important role in love even if they rest on facts that are not themselves rationally justifiable. Filled with illuminating examples from literature, Love's Vision is an original examination of a subject of vital philosophical and human concern.

Love. --- Affection --- Emotions --- First loves --- Friendship --- Intimacy (Psychology) --- Love --- agents. --- attention. --- attractiveness. --- blind. --- blindness. --- desirable. --- emotion. --- empathy. --- epistemic rationality. --- epistemic standards. --- immoral. --- immorality. --- love. --- lover. --- lovers. --- loving persons. --- maximizing requirement. --- moral danger. --- moral phenomenon. --- moral status. --- morality. --- motivation. --- particular. --- passion. --- rational evaluation. --- rationalism. --- rationality. --- reason. --- reasons. --- self-concern. --- universal. --- value. --- vision. --- Philosophical anthropology

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Nose reconstructions have been common in India for centuries. South Korea, Brazil, and Israel have become international centers for procedures ranging from eyelid restructuring to buttock lifts and tummy tucks. Argentina has the highest rate of silicone implants in the world. Around the globe, aesthetic surgery has become a cultural and medical fixture. Sander Gilman seeks to explain why by presenting the first systematic world history and cultural theory of aesthetic surgery. Touching on subjects as diverse as getting a "nose job" as a sweet-sixteen birthday present and the removal of male breasts in seventh-century Alexandria, Gilman argues that aesthetic surgery has such universal appeal because it helps people to "pass," to be seen as a member of a group with which they want to or need to identify. Gilman begins by addressing basic questions about the history of aesthetic surgery. What surgical procedures have been performed? Which are considered aesthetic and why? Who are the patients? What is the place of aesthetic surgery in modern culture? He then turns his attention to that focus of countless human anxieties: the nose. Gilman discusses how people have reshaped their noses to repair the ravages of war and disease (principally syphilis), to match prevailing ideas of beauty, and to avoid association with negative images of the "Jew," the "Irish," the "Oriental," or the "Black." He examines how we have used aesthetic surgery on almost every conceivable part of the body to try to pass as younger, stronger, thinner, and more erotic. Gilman also explores some of the extremes of surgery as personal transformation, discussing transgender surgery, adult circumcision and foreskin restoration, the enhancement of dueling scars, and even a performance artist who had herself altered to resemble the Mona Lisa. The book draws on an extraordinary range of sources. Gilman is as comfortable discussing Nietzsche, Yeats, and Darwin as he is grisly medical details, Michael Jackson, and Barbra Streisand's decision to keep her own nose. The book contains dozens of arresting images of people before, during, and after surgery. This is a profound, provocative, and engaging study of how humans have sought to change their lives by transforming their bodies.

Body image --- Surgery, Plastic --- Social aspects. --- Complications. --- Complications and sequelae --- Admiration. --- Aesthetics. --- African Americans. --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Anesthesia. --- Antiseptic. --- Attractiveness. --- Ayurveda. --- Beauty. --- Body image. --- Bra size. --- Brachioplasty. --- Breast. --- Buttock augmentation. --- Buttocks. --- Caricature. --- Cartilage. --- Centrality. --- Cheek. --- Chin augmentation. --- Cleanliness. --- Clothespin. --- Clothing. --- Cosmetics. --- Credential. --- Credentialing. --- Cultural capital. --- Culture of India. --- Direct experience. --- Disease. --- Earlobe. --- Efficacy. --- Eloquence. --- Enthusiasm. --- Evocation. --- Excess skin. --- Face powder. --- Face. --- Family income. --- Female. --- Foreskin restoration. --- Foreskin. --- Granulation tissue. --- Greatness. --- Hair transplantation. --- Hairstyle. --- Health professional. --- High Art. --- High Renaissance. --- Human nose. --- Human physical appearance. --- Human skin color. --- Human spirit. --- Human tooth. --- Humanism. --- Humorism. --- Humour. --- Hygiene. --- I Wish (manhwa). --- Idealization. --- Invention. --- Keloid. --- Kiss. --- Lighting. --- Local anesthesia. --- Lorenz Oken. --- Middle class. --- Modernity. --- Moral imperative. --- Narrative. --- Parody. --- Peaceful coexistence. --- Penis. --- Physical attractiveness. --- Physician. --- Plastic surgery. --- Popularity. --- Positive liberty. --- Projective identification. --- Real Body. --- Recreation. --- Scalp. --- Scholasticism. --- Self-consciousness. --- Sensibility. --- Seriousness. --- Sincerity. --- Social order. --- Social reality. --- Social status. --- Sophistication. --- Superficiality. --- Swaddling. --- Syphilis. --- The Human Face. --- The Mask. --- Theory of justification. --- Thigh. --- Understanding.

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316.772.23 --- #SBIB:309H53 --- Niet-verbale communicatie--(communicatiesociologie) --- Niet-verbale communicatie --- Beauty, Personal. --- Courtship. --- Mate selection. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Sexual attraction. --- 316.772.23 Niet-verbale communicatie--(communicatiesociologie) --- Beauty, Personal --- Courtship --- Mate selection --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sexual attraction --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Sex appeal --- Sexiness --- Sexual attractiveness --- Interpersonal attraction --- Dating (Social customs) --- Interpersonal relations --- Man-woman relationships --- Marriage brokerage --- Courting --- Wooing --- Betrothal --- Love --- Love-letters --- Marriage --- Beauty --- Complexion --- Grooming, Personal --- Grooming for women --- Personal beauty --- Personal grooming --- Toilet (Grooming) --- Hygiene --- Beauty culture --- Beauty shops --- Cosmetics --- Psychological aspects