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“Love and Western Culture” is the most famous work of the Swiss philosopher Denis de Rougemont (1906–1985).
The author meticulously analyzes the legend of Tristan and Isolde and other classic texts of European literature in order to substantiate his paradoxical thesis: romantic love, inherent only to our culture, originated in a certain place and at a certain time. De Rougemont considers this key region to be the south of France, in particular Provence and Occitania, where two phenomena were most widespread: the poetry of the troubadours and the heresy of the Cathars and Albigenses.
How the interweaving of Celtic legends, Eastern philosophy, Christian heretical movements, and mysticism eventually gave rise to an entire culture of romantic love—and how this influenced the subsequent history of Europe up to the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century—the reader of this book will learn more about this and more.