Irving Singer (1925–2015)
Author of The Nature of Love: The Modern World
About the Author
Irving Singer is Professor of Philosophy at MIT.
Series
Works by Irving Singer
Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir (The Irving Singer Library) (2004) 40 copies, 1 review
The Harmony of Nature and Spirit: Meaning in Life (Meaning in Life/Irving Singer, Vol 3) (1996) 18 copies
Associated Works
The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel (1935) — Introduction, some editions — 350 copies, 6 reviews
Essays in literary criticism — Editor, some editions — 8 copies
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- Birthdate
- 1925-12-24
- Date of death
- 2015-02-01
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- Philosophy Professor
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Reviews
There is an anecdote in McCormick's Santayana biography of the elder philosopher being visited in Rome by a couple of Harvard undergrads. Fifty years later one of the undergrads wrote this book. A re-read from when it was published, Singer argues for Santayana's place as a premier moralist and aesthetician. That may be true if uninteresting to this reader. I am much more curious about Santayana's (failed) attempt to merge Neoplatonism with the modern world, but Singer does elaborate what he show more chooses to emphasize. show less
The book is a philosophical exploration of the operas of Mozart and Beethoven with a focus on the concept of love. Just as love is one of the most important aspects of so much of the Operatic universe, this work provides some of the reasons why that is so true.
Its MIT press book, also available on MIT press ebooks portal on ipublishcentral http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/ingmar-bergman-cinematic-philosopher
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