Love and Culture by W. B. Macomber was transcribed from lectures given for the undergraduate introductory philosophy course at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1971. It was further edited by Macomber and self-published in 1972 for use as the basic text in the introductory course. It presents Macomber's interpretation of the seven speeches in Plato's Symposium, which Macomber viewed as encapsulating the primary stages of development in the Western philosophical tradition. More about Macomber and this text can be found in the commentary here. 

LOVE AND CULTURE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

*)  INTRODUCTION

1)  THE THREE ECSTASIES OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE

2)  HOW BEST TO WASTE YOUR TIME

3)  PHAEDRUS: THE LOGOS OF ROMANTICISM

4)  HOW TO WIN AT CHESS AND LIFE

5)  ROMANTICISM, GENIUS, AND CRIMINALITY

6)  NOUS AND THUMOS

7)  WHY YOU SHOULD NOT RIP OFF MY STEREO

8)  WHERE LBJ AND NIXON WENT WRONG

9)  PAUSANIAS: THE LOGOS OF EROTICISM

10) THINKING AND LIFE

11) ERYXIMACHUS: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SUBURBIA

12) ARISTOPHANES: THINKING TURNS ON ITSELF

13) SOCRATES AND AGATHON: DEPTH AND SURFACE

14) SOCRATES: THE ASCENT OF LOVE

15) ALCIBIADES DISPARU