Have you ever found that deciphering your lover's motivations is as mind-boggling as deconstructing a Philosophy PhD candidate's dissertation? This is your book. Beginning with the narrator's chance encounter with Chloe, seated next to him on a return flight from Paris to London, de Botton uses the philosophies of Plato, Nietzsche, Marx and others to interpret the confusion, bliss and insecurity entwined in their relationship. Utterly intelligent and charming, On Love will feed your brain and touch your heart.