Inside this new book series with your host, Mitch Hampton:

November’s “Book Lunch” will be something a little different: a new three part/episode series on a single three volume work:

Both the books and the discussion will be a little different than most discussions of the subject.

Singer was a brilliant philosopher and scholar of the arts and humanities and, though the subject is Love, the approach is intellectual history: rather than psychology episodes or the equivalent the aim is not to forever once and for all define what Love is or how to love but rather, how different eras have actually viewed and practiced the subject.

Singer’s work is most wide ranging, including rather deep discussions of Shakespeare, Martin Luther, Plotinus, Proust and more.

Instead of an episode a volume I will use a non-linear approach to help Singer’s pluralistic overview both of what commonalities humans have evidenced over many years, but, more clearly, what great differences.

And above all, Singer makes artists and thinkers the main characters in his story.