Erotikon : essays on Eros, ancient and modern / edited by Shadi Bartsch & Thomas Bartscherer.

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2005.

338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Erotikon / Susan Mitchell -- Six remarks on platonic eros / Glenn W. Most -- Love's irony : six remarks on platonic eros / David M. Halperin -- Eros and the Roman philosopher / Shadi Bartsch -- Response to Shadi Bartsch / Catharine Edwards -- The divided consciousness of Augustine on eros / David Tracy -- Augustine divided : a response to David Tracy / Valentina Izmirlieva -- Love of life : Lucretius to Freud / James I. Porter -- Response to James I. Porter / Richard Wollheim -- The architecture of love in baroque Rome / Ingrid D. Rowland -- Architectures of love and strife / Anthony Grafton -- Selection of poems read at the Erotikon symposium / Mark Strand -- The erotic Nietzsche : philosophers without philosophy / Robert B. Pippin -- Was will der Philosoph? / Eric L. Santner -- Give Dora a break! : a tale of eros and emotional disruption / Jonathan Lear -- The swerve of the real / Slavoj Žižek -- On the wish to burn my work / Jonathan Lear -- People as fictions : Proust and the ladder of love / Martha C. Nussbaum -- Proust's epistemophilia / Peter Brooks -- All love told : Barthes and the novel / Philippe Roger -- Response to Philippe Roger / Eric Marty -- The desire and pursuit of the hole : cinema's obscure object of desire / Tom Gunning -- Vertigo : a response to Tom Gunning / Robert B. Pippin -- A gallery of images from Vertigo -- Epilogue : eros and psyche / J.M. Coetzee.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-319) and index.