Thinking About Love
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Thinking About Love

Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

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Thinking About Love

Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Thinking About Love by Diane Enns, Antonio Calcagno, Diane Enns,Antonio Calcagno in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Modern Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9780271070964
eBook ISBN
9780271076188
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Modern Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Thinking About Love: An Introduction (Diane Enns and Antonio Calcagno)
  6. PART I: Human Vulnerability and the Limits of Love
  7. Chapter 1: Love and Death (Todd May)
  8. Chapter 2: Love’s Limit (Diane Enns)
  9. Chapter 3: The Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and Nihilism (John Caruana)
  10. PART II: Love, Desire, and the Divine
  11. Chapter 4: The Phenomenon of Kenotic Love in Continental Philosophy of Religion (Christina M. Gschwandtner)
  12. Chapter 5: Love’s Conditions: Passion and the Practice of Philosophy (Felix O Murchadha)
  13. Chapter 6: What Can Love Say?: Lyotard on Caritas and Eros (Mélanie Walton)
  14. Chapter 7: Finding a Place for Desire in the Life of the Mind: Arendt and Augustine (Antonio Calcagno)
  15. PART III: Love and Politics
  16. Chapter 8: Against Essentialist Conceptions of Love: Toward a Social-Material Theory (Christian Iotz)
  17. Chapter 9: Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the Significance of Love for Politics (Sophie Bourgault)
  18. PART IV: The Phenomenological Experience of Love
  19. Chapter 10: Trust and the Experience of Love (Fiona Utley)
  20. Chapter 11: The Time of Possible and Impossible Reciprocity Love and Hate in Simone de Beauvoir (Marguerite La Caze)
  21. Chapter 12: Intentionality and the Neuroscience of Love (Dorothea Olkowski)
  22. PART V: Love Stories
  23. Chapter 13: Love Is Blind: Jacques Derrida (Dawne McCance)
  24. Chapter 14: The Babies in Trees (Alphonso Lingis)
  25. Contributors
  26. Index
  27. COVER Back