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Thinking About Love

Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Diane Enns, Antonio Calcagno (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2017
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-07097-1 (ISBN)
47,95 inkl. MwSt
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.
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

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 3 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort University Park
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10 0-271-07097-8 / 0271070978
ISBN-13 978-0-271-07097-1 / 9780271070971
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