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In The Culture of Love in China and Europe Paolo Santangelo and Gabor Boros offer a survey of the cults of love developed in the history of ideas and literary production in China and Europe between the 12th and early 19th century. They describe parallel evolutions within the two cultures, and how innovatively these independent civilisations developed their own categories and myths to explain, exalt but also control the emotions of love and their behavioural expressions. The analyses contain rich materials for comparison, point out the universal and specific elements in each culture, and hint at differences and resemblances, without ignoring the peculiar beauty and attractive force of the texts cultivating love.

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Paolo Santangelo, is Professor emeritus of Sapienza University of Rome, and leads an international research project on the textual analysis of literary and non-literary sources in Chinese culture. He is the author of several books and articles. Gabor Boros is Philosopher at Lorand Eoetvoes University and Head of the Department of General Humanities at Gaspar Karoli University in Budapest. He has published monographs, translations and numerous articles on early modern philosophy and philosophy of emotions, in particularly on the concepts of love.

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