The multidimensional world of love is revealed in Mikhail Epstein's book with encyclopedic breadth and lyrical inspiration. The nature of the erotic and sexual, sensual fantasies, and the mysteries of carnal knowledge are spoken of with the utmost frankness. The book is rich in aphoristic definitions of different shades of love feelings. The author considers desire, pleasure, temptation, inspiration, tenderness, pain, jealousy, referring to the ideas of dialogical and structural poetics, existential psychology, and philosophical anthropology. Much attention is paid to the analysis of the language of love. Among the author's interlocutors are Plato and Spinoza, Freud and G. Marcuse, I. Bunin and V. Nabokov, M. Bulgakov and M. Prishvin, R. Bart and Yu. Lotman. The book is intended for readers seeking an understanding of love in the context of modern humanitarian thought.The publisher's layout has been saved in a4.pdf format.