THE LIBRARY OF LOVE 150 Theories, Myths & Metaphors of the Heart

There may be no subject on which the human species has theorised more, and agreed less, than love. A teenager scrolling through a phone late at night and a sage seated beneath a tree two and a half thousand years ago are, it turns out, asking exactly the same question: why does this happen to us, and what does it mean? This book does not attempt to answer that question once and for all — no single theory in these pages claims to, and several of them flatly contradict one another. What it offers instead is the sheer width of humanity’s attempt to answer it.