Thinking About Love

Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Diane Enns, Antonio Calcagno (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2015
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-07096-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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