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Philosophy and love : from Plato to popular culture / Linnell Secomb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Secomb, Linnell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Love--Philosophy.
- Love.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 176 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [163]-169) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780253349798
- 0253349796
- 9780253219473
- 0253219477
- OCLC:
- 156864857
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