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Оглавление - Refusing to Love
The Paths of Russian Love from Pushkin to AI. Part I — The Golden Age
- About the book
- I
- An obnoxious discovery. Tempest in the web. An accidental connection. Transparent hints. A voice in the digital wilderness. The past in the present. Vices and prophets. A roll call from across the ocean
- II
- Love Triangle. The American Angle of Love. The Yalom family as the prism of American society. A grafting of the world’s best patterns. The therapy of love misery. Techniques of normative love. The living connection of times and spaces
- III
- From ship to ball. Elegant pas of tender feelings. The new framework of love. The cult of striving for the ideal. Faces of beauty. Incarnations of romantic dreams. The imaginary reality of the ideal. Divine creation
- IV
- The poet and love. A genius of pure beauty. The consonances of divine harmonies. Lyrical hero. Tragedy of loneliness. The emptied heart. The science of tender passion. The fateful lot
- V
- Flight from love. Towards the northern Aurora. The fears of the indifferent heart. Anticipation of hell. Involuntary sadness. The reliable source of inspiration. Soul rebirth. Black man. Embodiments of romantic poetry
- VI
- The relay of Romanticism. Love-passion. The two ways of romantic love. Love-aspiration. The kidnappers of love. Faithful dreams. Flattery instead of love. Passing the baton
- VII
- Mask, I love you. Achilles’ heel. The saving hope. Precious needs of the heart. We are a single link in an infinite chain. Overcoming doubt. The transformation of love. About the rebirth of Don Juan. Poets and philosophers. Illusions of the romantic ideal. The first dimension of Russian love
- VIII
- The mystery of Turgenev’s love. The contradiction of a free man. Much explanatory connection. Mystery after mystery. How to live? Enemies of love. An important question among the eternal. What is to be done? The bell of triumphant love
- IX
- A heart torn apart from the mind. The mystery of the beautiful pearl. Love and vocation. The treachery of unused powers. The family drama. New thoughts on romanticism. Love of East and West. Missing links. The impotence of the society of the future. A foggy encounter in London. In AI Style
- X
- Test for love. Reasonable egoism of love. The neutral room. The power needs of tender feeling. The third element. Romantic permutations. The colors of true love. The perfect palette of feminine virtues
- XI
- The boundaries of love. Experiments with love. Contradictory feelings. The formula of Russian romanticism. The confused search for the support of love. Analysis of purified love. Playing with Mephistopheles. An example of true Russian love. Love-humility. Poor Tatiana. Negative harmony of the spirit
- XII
- The Peak of happiness. The steps of fading love. Why do you love me? The edge of tenderness. Family unhappiness. The poisonous thorn of the rosy phase. Sensuality as a weapon. Two loves and a third. The evil spirit of love. The trial of high love. Convictions and the element of love torments. superior humans for love
- XIII
- From Nietzsche to Alyosha Karamazov. The love of an intermediate person. I’m a seagull. Spoiled love. Attractive laws of nature. Escape from love. Love is the cross of life. Irreconcilable differences. Your soul is not real. The pink horizon of humanity
- XIV
- Return with optimism. Akunin’s another way. Aristonomia and true love. The comedian Aristophanes and the philosopher Soloviev. Symbiosis versus the ego. The clinical picture of love. Woman’s palette of feelings. The hunger of the soul
- Bibliography