Thinking About Love : : Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy / / ed. by Diane Enns, Antonio Calcagno.
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 for...
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 3 illustrations |
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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