Download or read book Amorous Aesthetics written by Seth T. Reno and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amorous Aesthetics traces the development of intellectual love from its first major expression in Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics, through its adoption and adaptation in eighteenth-century moral and natural philosophy, to its emergence as a Romantic tradition in the work of six major poets.