Thinking About Love Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
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2015
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9780271070964
Publisert
2015-11-06
Utgiver
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Pennsylvania State University Press
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544 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
272
Om bidragsyterne
Diane Enns is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University and the author of Speaking of Freedom and The Violence of Victimhood, the last also published by Penn State.
Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College at Western University. His most recent book is Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy.
Does love command an ineffability that remains inaccessible to the philosopher?Thinking About Love considers the nature and experience of love through the writing of well-known Continental philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Derrida, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.Evolving forms of social organization, rapid developments in the field of psychology, and novel variations on relationships demand new approaches to and ways of talking about love. Rather than offering prescriptive claims, this volume explores how one might think about the concept philosophically, without attempting to resolve or alleviate its ambiguities, paradoxes, and limitations. The essays focus on the contradictions and limits of love, manifested in such phenomena as trust, abuse, grief, death, violence, politics, and desire.An erudite examination of the many facets of love, this book fills a lacuna in the philosophy of this richly complicated topic.Along with the editors, the contributors are Sophie Bourgault, John Caruana, Christina M. Gschwandtner, Marguerite La Caze, Alphonso Lingis, Christian Lotz, Todd May, Dawne McCance, Dorothea Olkowski, Felix Ó Murchadha, Fiona Utley, and Mélanie Walton.
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A collection of essays exploring the nature and experience of love, its contradictions and limits, and its material and ideal forms. Drawing from leading contemporary Continental philosophers, contributors focus on love as it relates to such phenomena as trust, abuse, grief, death, hatred, politics, and desire.
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ContentsAcknowledgments Thinking About Love: An Introduction Diane Enns and Antonio CalcagnoPart I Human Vulnerability and the Limits of Love1 Love and Death Todd May2 Love’s Limit Diane Enns3 The Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and Nihilism John CaruanaPart II Love, Desire, and the Divine4 The Phenomenon of Kenotic Love in Continental Philosophy of Religion Christina M. Gschwandtner5 Love’s Conditions: Passion and the Practice of Philosophy Felix Ó Murchadha6 What Can Love Say? Lyotard on Caritas and Eros Mélanie Walton7 Finding a Place for Desire in the Life of the Mind: Arendt and Augustine Antonio CalcagnoPart III Love and Politics8 Against Essentialist Conceptions of Love: Toward a Social-Material Theory Christian Lotz9 Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the Significance of Love for Politics Sophie BourgaultPart IV The Phenomenological Experience of Love10 Trust and the Experience of Love Fiona Utley 11 The Time of Possible and Impossible Reciprocity: Love and Hate in Simone de Beauvoir Marguerite La Caze12 Intentionality and the Neuroscience of Love Dorothea OlkowskiV Love Stories13 Love Is Blind: Jacques Derrida Dawne McCance14 The Babies in Trees Alphonso LingisList of Contributors Index Acknowledgments
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“The contributors—scholars from Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US—offer insightful examinations of love, in its romantic/erotic, kenotic, friendship, and agapic forms. . . . A worthy foray into a topic of universal human experience, this collection will awaken readers to the value of what philosophy today says about love.”—S. Young Choice
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780271070964
Publisert
2015-11-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Pennsylvania State University Press
Vekt
544 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
23 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
272
Om bidragsyterne
Diane Enns is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University and the author of Speaking of Freedom and The Violence of Victimhood, the last also published by Penn State.
Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College at Western University. His most recent book is Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy.