Fenomen lyubvi vsegda interesoval vsekh. Dostatochno vspomnit' Makhabkharatu, Iliadu i Odisseyu, bibleyskuyu Pesn' Pesney... Tol'ko vot - o lyubvi li oni? I chto takoe, sobstvenno, LYuBOV'? Chto opisyvaet eto termin, okhvatyvaya nechto, ves'ma sushchestvennoe v chelovecheskom sushchestvovanii, ot "polovogo akta" - do "Bog est' Lyubov'"? I ne ot etoy li shiroty termina - raznochteniya i slozhnosti pnimaniya? Fenomen lyubvi sostavlyaet osnovu mnozhestva filosofsko-religioznykh, i sobstvenno filosofskikh teoriy. A glavnoe - sotsiokul'turnaya praktika, kotoraya pronizana lyubov'yu i ee antipodom, nenavist'yu, ot samykh "myagkikh" do samykh "zhestkikh" form. Avtor knigi nadeetsya vnesti v eti voprosy neobkhodimuyu i vozmozhnuyu yasnost'. Obshirnyy material, nakoplennyy sovremennoy antropologiey, filosofiey, istoriey i meditsinoy predlagaetsya v zanimatel'noy i sistematizirovannoy forme.