Thinking About Love
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-07096-4 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Thinking About Love: An Introduction
Diane Enns and Antonio Calcagno
Part IHuman Vulnerability and the Limits of Love
1Love and Death
Todd May
2Love’s Limit
Diane Enns
3The Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and Nihilism
John Caruana
Part IILove, Desire, and the Divine
4The Phenomenon of Kenotic Love in Continental Philosophy of Religion
Christina M. Gschwandtner
5Love’s Conditions: Passion and the Practice of Philosophy
Felix Ó Murchadha
6What Can Love Say? Lyotard on Caritas and Eros
Mélanie Walton
7Finding a Place for Desire in the Life of the Mind: Arendt and Augustine
Antonio Calcagno
Part IIILove and Politics
8Against Essentialist Conceptions of Love: Toward a Social-Material Theory
Christian Lotz
9Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the Significance of Love for Politics
Sophie Bourgault
Part IVThe Phenomenological Experience of Love
10Trust and the Experience of Love
Fiona Utley
11The Time of Possible and Impossible Reciprocity: Love and Hate in Simone de Beauvoir
Marguerite La Caze
12Intentionality and the Neuroscience of Love
Dorothea Olkowski
VLove Stories
13Love Is Blind: Jacques Derrida
Dawne McCance
14The Babies in Trees
Alphonso Lingis
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
| Zusatzinfo | 3 Halftones, black and white |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | University Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-07096-X / 027107096X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-07096-4 / 9780271070964 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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