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        Irving Singer Library

        The Irving Singer Library makes available Irving Singer’s classic works on philosophy and aesthetics, with new prefaces by the author, as well as his more recent books on these topics. Irving Singer is a retired professor of philosophy who taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of books on various topics, including cinema, love, sexuality, and the philosophy of George Santayana. He written about the work of film directors Ingmar Bergman, Alfred Hitchcock, Jean Renoir, and Orson Welles. Singer has been publishing on philosophy since 1951

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        Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher

        Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher

        Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher

        Reflections on His Creativity

        by Irving Singer

        ISBN: 9780262513234

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 18, 2009

        The development of themes, motifs, and techniques in Bergman's films, from the first intimations in the early work to the consummate resolutions in the final movies.
        Philosophy of Love

        Philosophy of Love

        Philosophy of Love

        A Partial Summing-Up

        by Irving Singer

        Foreword by Alan Soble

        ISBN: 9780262516174

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: January 7, 2011

        The author of the classic philosophical treatment of love reflects on the trajectory, over decades, of his thoughts on love and other topics.
        Meaning in Life

        Meaning in Life

        Meaning in Life

        The Pursuit of Love

        by Irving Singer

        ISBN: 9780262513579

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 30, 2009

        An acclaimed philosopher offers a systematic mapping of the various facets of love.
        Three Philosophical Filmmakers

        Three Philosophical Filmmakers

        Three Philosophical Filmmakers

        Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir

        by Irving Singer

        ISBN: 9780262693288

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 23, 2005

        Examining the work of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Jean Renoir as it expresses their disparate visions of the human condition.
        Reality Transformed

        Reality Transformed

        Reality Transformed

        Film and Meaning and Technique

        by Irving Singer

        ISBN: 9780262692489

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: August 25, 2000

        A new look at film that succeeds in combining the realist and formalist sides of an ongoing debate.
        Cinematic Mythmaking

        Cinematic Mythmaking

        Cinematic Mythmaking

        Philosophy in Film

        by Irving Singer

        ISBN: 9780262515153

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: September 24, 2010

        Mythic themes and philosophical probing in film as an art form, as seen in works of Preston Sturges, Jean Cocteau, Stanley Kubrick, and various other filmmakers.
        Meaning in Life

        Meaning in Life

        Meaning in Life

        The Harmony of Nature and Spirit

        by Irving Singer

        ISBN: 9780262513586

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 30, 2009

        An acclaimed philosopher suggests that the art of living well employs the same principles as those that exist in all artistic creativity.
        Meaning in Life

        Meaning in Life

        Meaning in Life

        The Creation of Value

        by Irving Singer

        ISBN: 9780262513562

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: December 30, 2009

        An acclaimed philosopher views the search for meaning in life as the search for a mode of creativity that will make our lives meaningful.
        Mozart and Beethoven

        Mozart and Beethoven

        Mozart and Beethoven

        The Concept of Love in Their Operas

        by Irving Singer

        ISBN: 9780262513647

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 19, 2010

        An exploration of the sensuous and the passionate, as expressed in operas by Mozart and Beethoven.
        The Nature of Love

        The Nature of Love

        The Nature of Love

        The Modern World

        by Irving Singer

        ISBN: 9780262512749

        Publisher: The MIT Press

        Pub Date: February 27, 2009

        The final volume of Singer's trilogy discusses ideas about love in the work of writers ranging from Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Tolstoy to Freud, Proust, D. H. Lawrence, Shaw, and others in the contemporary world.
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