The author deals with two different kinds of love - existential and mystical. By existential he means man's love for all that is human and all that is natural, especially love between man and woman. By mystical love he means man's love for God. These two kinds of love are usually regarded as irreconcilable opposites, but the author contends that this is a mistaken attitude, that indeed nothing real should be excluded, that that both are real, and the the full range of human love includes both.

Human Love: Existential and Mystical

Harper, Professor Ralph

Religion & Spirituality

The Johns Hopkins University Press

In these three predecessors of existentialism, all of whom were profoundly influenced by Stendhal, author Ralph Harper finds evidence of that spiritual isolation which leads ultimately to personal solitude and philosophical nihilism. To these negative modes of being he opposes the alternatives embodied by St. Augustine and Proust -- the passion for God and the passion for creation.

The Seventh Solitude: Metaphysical Homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The Existential Experience

Fine Book. 5 1/4 By 8`` Very slight signs of age or use. Book interprets modern man's emptiness, his self-isolation and redemptive sense of Presence.

The Existential Experience.

World of the Thriller

Discusses the existential themes of the fictional genre and the psychology of the reader's involvement.

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Books by Harper, Professor Ralph

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Human Love: Existential and Mystical

The Seventh Solitude: Metaphysical Homelessness in Kierkegaard, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche

The Existential Experience

The Existential Experience.

World of the Thriller

World of the Thriller