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Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar is an anthology of source readings offered as a response to the contemporary cultural silence surrounding love that leads to marriage. It addresses important questions that emerge not from theory, but from practice: Why marry? Is this love? How can I find and win the right one to marry? What about sex? Why a wedding and the promises of marriage? What can married life be like?
This unapologetically pro-marriage anthology is intended to help young people of marriageable age and their parents think about the meaning, purpose, and virtues of marriage and, especially, about finding the right person with whom to make a life.
Leon R. Kass is the Hertog Fellow at AEI.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Where Are We Now? Assessing Our Situation
From Front Porch to Back Seat
Passionate Attachments in the West in Historical Perspective
Relationships
I Do?
Why Marry? Defenses of Matrimony
This is the Question
Of the Marriage Goods
A Praise of Marriage
Of Marriage and Single Life
Pride and Prejudice: For Love or Money?
Some Reflections on Marriage
Monogamy and Its Discontents
Men and Women--Can We Be Friends?
Speaking Personally
The Annunciation
What About Sex? Man, Woman, and Sexuality
The Coupling of Ares and Aphrodite
2:4-4:2: The Anthropology of Sex
Emile: Sexual Complementarity
The Story of Candaules and Gyges
On Shame and Love
Comment on the Social Psychology of Shame
Four Mischievous Theories of Sex
Is This Love? Eros and Its Aims
The Word Love
Symposium: Aristophanes' Speech on Eros
Symposium: Socrates' Speech on Eros
The Song of Songs
The Tristan Myth
Romeo and Juliet
Emile: Educating for Love
Sonnets 18, 115, and 116
Letters on Love
Eros
How Can I Find and Win the Right One? Courtship
Miss Manners' Advice on Courtship
24: Finding a Wife for Isaac
29-31: Jacob Finds a Wife
The Engagement: A Story
The People of the Sierra
Courtship: A Colloquy
The Tempest
As You Like It
Reflections on Courtship and Marriage
The Elysian Fields
Emile: The Courtship of Emile and Sophie
War and Peace: The Courtship of Pierre and Helene
Anna Karenina: Levin's Proposal to Kitty
Pride and Prejudice: The Courtship of Darcy and Elizabeth
Why A Wedding? The Promises of Marriage
The Covenant of Marriage
Marriage Vows and Blessings
Active Love, or Keeping Faith
The Marriage Name
What Can Married Life Be Like? The Blessings of Married Life
The Reunion of Penelope and Odysseus
The Friendship of Husband and Wife
Childless Love
The Married Man: Reservist of the Line
Letter to Sarah
Democracy in America: Marriage and Mores
Emile: Married Lovers
Lasting Love
Bed and Board: Liturgies of Home
War and Peace, First Epilogue: Parents and Children
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