Philosophy and Love – From Plato to Popular Culture

Linnell Secomb (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

2007
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-21947-3 (ISBN)

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Philosophy and Love introduces readers to philosophical reflections on love from Plato to the present. Bringing philosophy together with popular cultural analysis, Linnell Secomb provides an interesting and engaging account of theories of love throughout history. Along the way, reflections on same-sex desire, cross-cultural love, and internet romance are considered against the ideas of Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Irigaray, Derrida, and Fanon, and other contemporary cultural commentators on the human condition. The work also looks at cultural productions of love ranging from Sappho to Frankenstein by focusing on archetypal stories of love and love gone wrong. Philosophy and Love reveals an ethics and politics of love that discloses the paradoxes, conflicts, and intensity of human love relations.

Linnell Secomb is Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sapphic and Platonic Erotics 2. The Paradoxical Passions of Shelley and Nietzsche 3. Simone de Beauvoir's Desperate Housewives 4. Levinas: Love as Responsibility 5. Colonial Love in Fanon and Moffatt 6. Irigaray: Loving Indirection 7. Barthes: A Lover's (Internet) Discourses 8. Butler and Foucault: Que(e)rying Marriage 9. Amorous Politics: Between Derrida and Nancy Conclusion Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.7.2007
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Partnerschaft / Sexualität
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-253-21947-7 / 0253219477
ISBN-13	978-0-253-21947-3 / 9780253219473
Zustand	Neuware