Thinking About Love : : Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy / / ed. by Diane Enns, Antonio Calcagno.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Bourgault, Sophie,; Calcagno, Antonio,; Caruana, John,; Enns, Diane,; Gschwandtner, Christina M.,; La Caze, Marguerite,; Lingis, Alphonso,; Lotz, Christian,; May, Todd,; McCance, Dawne,; Murchadha, Felix Ó,; Olkowski, Dorothea,; Utley, Fiona,; Walton, Mélanie,
• HerausgeberIn: Calcagno, Antonio,; Enns, Diane,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 3 illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Thinking About Love: An Introduction -- Part I Human Vulnerability and the Limits of Love -- 1 Love and Death -- 2 Love's Limit -- 3 The Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and Nihilism -- Part II Love, Desire, and the Divine -- 4 The Phenomenon of Kenotic Love in Continental Philosophy of Religion -- 5 Love's Conditions: Passion and the Practice of Philosophy -- 6 What Can Love Say? Lyotard on Caritas and Eros -- 7 Finding a Place for Desire in the Life of the Mind: Arendt and Augustine -- Part III Love and Politics -- 8 Against Essentialist Conceptions of Love: Toward a Social-Material Theory -- 9 Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the Significance of Love for Politics -- Part IV The Phenomenological Experience of Love -- 10 Trust and the Experience of Love -- 11 The Time of Possible and Impossible Reciprocity: Love and Hate in Simone de Beauvoir -- 12 Intentionality and the Neuroscience of Love -- Part V Love Stories -- 13 Love Is Blind: Jacques Derrida -- 14 The Babies in Trees -- List of Contributors -- Index