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- 2000
- Book Title
- Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings on Courting and Marrying (E...
- ISBN
- 9780268019600
- Subject Area
- Family & Relationships, Psychology, Religion
- Publication Name
- Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar : Readings on Courting and Marrying
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Subject
- Ethics, Friendship, Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Psychotherapy / Counseling
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Series
- Ethics of Everyday Life Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 35.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 656 Pages
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Despite current concerns for "family values" and the dissolution of marriages, Amy A. and Leon R. Kass see very little attention being paid to what makes for marital success. They argue there are no longer socially prescribed forms of conduct that help guide young men and women in the direction of matrimony; the very concepts of "wooing" and "courting" seem archaic. Yet they see major discontent with the present situation and detect among their students certain longings--for friendship, for wholeness, for a life that is serious and deep, and for associations that are trustworthy and lasting--longings they do not realize could be largely satisfied by marrying well. Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Courting and Marrying is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It addresses important questions that emerge not from theory, but from practice: Why marry? Is this love? How can I find and win the right one to marry? What about sex? Why a wedding and the promises of marriage? What can married life be like? Using readings taken mainly from classic texts of Homer, Herodotus, Plato, Aquinas, Erasmus, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Austen, Tolstoy, C.S. Lewis, Miss Manners, and many others, this collection challenges our unexamined opinions, expands our sympathies, elevates our gaze. It offers a higher kind of sex education, one that prepares hearts and minds for romance leading to lasting marriage, and introduces us to possibilities open to human beings in everyday life that may be undreamt of in our current philosophizing. This unapologetically pro-marriage anthology is intended to help young people of marriageable age and their parents think about the meaning, purpose, and virtues of marriage and, especially, about finding the right person with whom to make a life.
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University of Notre Dame Press
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0268019606
ISBN-13
9780268019600
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Publication Name
Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar : Readings on Courting and Marrying
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Ethics, Friendship, Marriage & Long-Term Relationships, Psychotherapy / Counseling
Publication Year
2000
Series
Ethics of Everyday Life Ser.
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Family & Relationships, Psychology, Religion
Number of Pages
656 Pages
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Item Length
9.2 in
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
35.3 Oz
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99-054852
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What once seemed self-evident connections between love and marriage are today obscured and widely denied. This book . . . is a corrective that both instructs and delights. In order to lift up the charms and complexities of man and woman's need for each other, the Kasses enlist the help of Homer, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Austen, Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, and a host of other worthies. Their extended introduction is rare wisdom distilled through their own marriage and in lively conversation with the best that has been thought and said about keeping faith with the promise of love. This is a book to return to again and again, tasting and testing the wondrous diversity of ways in which that promise has been, and can be, lived. There are also powerful cautionary tales about the tragic consequences of the promise betrayed. Highly recommended for both personal reflection and classroom use., " Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar is essentially a Book of Virtues for lovers and lovers-to-be. It teaches a higher form of sex education--a form which cultivates awe for the depth and breadth of marital love while showing respect for the fragility of the human heart. Get your hands on the Kasses' book and consider its wise counsel." -- USA Today , "What once seemed self-evident connections between love and marriage are today obscured and widely denied. This book is a corrective that both instructs and delights. The extended introduction is rare wisdom distilled through the Kasses' own marriage and in lively conversation with the best that has been thought and said about keeping faith with the promise of love. This is a book to return to again and again. Highly recommended for both personal reflection and classroom use." -- First Things , " Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar is essentially a Book of Virtues for lovers and lovers-to-be. It teaches a higher form of sex education--a form which cultivates awe for the depth and breadth of marital love while showing respect for the fragility of the human heart. Get your hands on the Kasses' book and consider its wise counsel." -- USA Today, "For many rich insights into the rewards of the common life, there is no better place to start than with this book." -- Commentary, "The wisdom contained in this anthology is well-suited to direct our judgments about how to live." -- Wall Street Journal , "Reading this book is the next best thing to gaining a coveted seat in one of the University of Chicago seminars taught by Amy and Leon Kass. In an era when fashionable opinion speaks of courting and marrying in ironic tones or not at all, the Kasses do something unfashionable. They put us in touch with thinkers, past and present, who treat the task of finding and winning a marriage mate for what it is: a pursuit central to human life and happiness. At a time when young people are floundering and failing in their search for the right person to marry, this splendid selection of readings comes not a minute too soon." --Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, author of The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitments to Marriage and the Family, "For many rich insights into the rewards of the common life, there is no better place to start than with this book." -- Commentary , "A splendid collection that reminds us of what we are in danger of forgetting--the great Western tradition of marriage and courtship. The resources the Kasses have brought together are rich, complex, diverse, and often powerful." --Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Political and Social Ethics, The University of Chicago, and author of Democracy on Trial., "The wisdom contained in this anthology is well-suited to direct our judgments about how to live." -- Wall Street Journal, " Wing to Wing cannot help awaken a salutary awareness of our often contradictory desires. Most of all, it opens up vistas of human potential for our malnourished youth, stunted by years of gender theory, Fox TV, and parents who laugh at naked dorms." -- The Public Interest, " Wing to Wing cannot help awaken a salutary awareness of our often contradictory desires. Most of all, it opens up vistas of human potential for our malnourished youth, stunted by years of gender theory, Fox TV, and parents who laugh at naked dorms." -- The Public Interest , "Man's desire for woman and woman's need of man are the beginning, middle, and end of the human story. In our current modern condition of deaf self-regard--and at God knows what cost--most of us pay scant attention to this story. In the present volume Leon and Amy Kass invite us precisely to stop and listen. They are healers, then, and at the same time in the most profound sense of the term they are also entertainers." --Midge Decter, author of The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's Liberation, "Here is a splendid introduction to the romance missing in our lives today: how to think about romance, how to control it, how to enjoy it." --Harvey Mansfield, Professor of Government, Harvard University, "What once seemed self-evident connections between love and marriage are today obscured and widely denied. This book . . . is a corrective that both instructs and delights. In order to lift up the charms and complexities of man and woman's need for each other, the Kasses enlist the help of Homer, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Austen, Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, and a host of other worthies. Their extended introduction is rare wisdom distilled through their own marriage and in lively conversation with the best that has been thought and said about keeping faith with the promise of love. This is a book to return to again and again, tasting and testing the wondrous diversity of ways in which that promise has been, and can be, lived. There are also powerful cautionary tales about the tragic consequences of the promise betrayed. Highly recommended for both personal reflection and classroom use." -- First Things, "'Courting' has long been archaic. 'Marrying' is threatening to become so. This book is not only a theoretical defense of the older concepts but a practical manual, a guide to the perplexed. The introduction alone, by Amy and Leon Kass, is worth the price of the book, and the readings, ranging from Homer to Miss Manners, are a fount of wisdom." --Gertrude Himmelfarb, author of The De-Moralization of Society: From Victorian Virtues to Modern Values
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2000
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