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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.
ContentsAcknowledgmentsThinking About Love: An IntroductionDiane Enns and Antonio CalcagnoPart IHuman Vulnerability and the Limits of Love1Love and DeathTodd May2Love’s LimitDiane Enns3The Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and NihilismJohn CaruanaPart IILove, Desire, and the Divine4The Phenomenon of Kenotic Love in Continental Philosophy of ReligionChristina M. Gschwandtner5Love’s Conditions: Passion and the Practice of PhilosophyFelix Ó Murchadha6What Can Love Say? Lyotard on Caritas and ErosMélanie Walton7Finding a Place for Desire in the Life of the Mind: Arendt and AugustineAntonio CalcagnoPart IIILove and Politics8Against Essentialist Conceptions of Love: Toward a Social-Material TheoryChristian Lotz9Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the Significance of Love for PoliticsSophie BourgaultPart IVThe Phenomenological Experience of Love10Trust and the Experience of LoveFiona Utley 11The Time of Possible and Impossible Reciprocity: Love and Hate in Simone de BeauvoirMarguerite La Caze12Intentionality and the Neuroscience of LoveDorothea OlkowskiVLove Stories13Love Is Blind: Jacques DerridaDawne McCance14The Babies in TreesAlphonso LingisList of ContributorsIndex Acknowledgments
“The contributors—scholars from Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US—offer insightful examinations of love, in its romantic/erotic, kenotic, friendship, and agapic forms. . . . A worthy foray into a topic of universal human experience, this collection will awaken readers to the value of what philosophy today says about love.”—S. Young Choice
Tilottama Rajan, Antonio Calcagno, University of Western Ontario_x000D_) Rajan, Tilottama (Distinguished University Professor and Canada Research Chair in English and Theory, King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario_x000D_) Calcagno, Antonio (Professor of Philosophy