Love Troubles

A Philosophy of Eros

Federica Gregoratto (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2025
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-21762-0 (ISBN)

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What does it mean to love? Does love complete us, giving us purpose and meaning? Or does it tie us down and even harm us? Is erotic desire complicit in oppression, or could it deliver liberation? Are our desires extricable from the wrongs of our societies? And in today’s world, is love still worth the trouble?

This book develops a critical theory of sexual love and friendship, offering profound new ways to understand the troublesome nature of eros. Federica Gregoratto explores the ambivalence of erotic love, which is at once intimately interwoven with heterosexism, racism, and neoliberal capitalism yet entices us with the tantalizing possibility of transformation. Drawing on a rich array of sources—from Frankfurt School critical theory to feminist thought and contemporary philosophies of emotions and affects, as well as poetry, novels, films, and music—she argues that love provides unexpected resources for political agency, resistance, and emancipation. Gregoratto makes a passionate defense of erotic freedom as an adventurous process through which we understand, together with others, who we are and who we want to become, both in our individual existences and in our social lives. Wide-ranging and daring, Love Troubles invites us to reflect on our fraught amorous experiences, showing why we should cherish and learn from them.

Federica Gregoratto is visiting associate professor of practical philosophy at the University of Lucerne. She has been a guest professor of philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and a lecturer in social and political philosophy at the University of St. Gallen.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Troubles We Desire
1. Some Kinda Love: A (Provisional) Map
2. “He Has Kissed Her with His Freedom”: Bound by Ambivalence
Excursus: Why Erotic Love?
3. The Mess We Are In: Toward a Critical Theory of Love
4. Avalanche: Erotic Emotions and Affects
5. Joy as an Act of Resistance: Erotic Education
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.1.2025
Reihe/Serie	New Directions in Critical Theory ; 92
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-231-21762-5 / 0231217625
ISBN-13	978-0-231-21762-0 / 9780231217620
Zustand	Neuware