Thinking about love : essays in contemporary continental philosophy / edited by Diane Enns and Antonio Calcagno.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enns, Diane, editor.

Calcagno, Antonio, 1969- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love.

Continental philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 262 pages )

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A collection of essays exploring the nature and experience of love, its contradictions and limits, and its material and ideal forms. Drawing from leading contemporary Continental philosophers, contributors focus on love as it relates to such phenomena as trust, abuse, grief, death, hatred, politics, and desire"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271076188

0271076186

OCLC:

928639752