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Autore |
Renshaw Sal <1964-> |
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Titolo |
The subject of love : Hélène Cixous and the feminine divine / / Sal Renshaw |
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Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
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New York, : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-84779-614-1 |
1-78170-295-0 |
1-84779-339-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (225 p.) |
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Collana |
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Manchester Studies in Religion, Culture and Gender |
Manchester studies in religion, culture, and gender |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Love in literature |
Feminism in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-201) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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9780719069604; 9780719069604; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION In the spirit of the gift of love; CHAPTER 1 Speaking of love: philosophy, theology, and French feminism; CHAPTER 2 Feminist theology: for the love of God; CHAPTER 3 Hélène Cixous' subject of love; CHAPTER 4 Graceful subjectivities; CHAPTER 5 Divine Promethean love; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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*The Subject of Love: Hélène Cixous and the Feminine Divine* is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred; often reserved only for God; and rarely thought of as a human achievement. This book is a substantial engagement with her philosophies of love, inviting the reader to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open us to something like a divine love of the other. Renshaw follows this thread in this genealogy of abundant love: the thread that |
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