LEADER 04369nam 22005655 450 001 9910865287403321 005 20240701204623.0 010 $a9789819730360$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9789819730353 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-97-3036-0 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31480673 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31480673 035 $a(CKB)32306635800041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-97-3036-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932306635800041 100 $a20240615d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death $eThe Metaphysics of Desire /$fby Alberto Castelli 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Nature Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (175 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Castelli, Alberto A Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death Singapore : Springer,c2024 9789819730353 327 $aAcknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- A Love that Kills: The Idiot -- Isabel Archer: A Case for Female Masochist Tendencies -- Romantic Agony: Young Werther and Jacopo Ortis -- Bipolarism in the Nineteenth Century Novel -- Women of Modernism -- The Love Song of the Underground Men -- The Unbearable Lightness of Providence -- Orphans of Love -- Afterword -- Endnotes -- Biography -- Index. 330 $aThis book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century. Each chapter comes with a multidisciplinary approach in which protagonists are mutilated in their quest for loving as alternative to annihilation. The book emphasizes love as an obsession, thus as an exploration of the mind. From the passion-myth of Tristan and Isolde to the nihilist modernist representations, the western world has created a perverse concept of love. A love for nothingness, for death. Narcissistic and at times destructive, love is gained by overcoming obstacles. If without obstacles there is no love, then love becomes love for obstacles. Within this masochistic frame, love, falling in love, being loved always stand at the edge of pathology. At its core this book narrates a love story, more precisely a story of loves, the haunting evocation of a desire that by its very nature cannot be fulfilled. Inherent in the nature of love is a subtle dialectical activity between presence and absence, between creation and destruction, reality and void. Accordingly, the narrative raises questions that the past two centuries were incapable of answering. Does love only last the time of a kiss? Is its promise fatally destined to dissolve? What about violence? Physical, emotional, temporal. Is it an ineliminable part of love or its most extreme profanation? And what is the mystery that accompanies loves that know how to last without resigning themselves to the death of desire? It is to answer some of these questions that I wrote this text. Love is an unconscious process that dominates reason and destroys it when reason cannot be a mode of communication. Hence, the amorous romance is madness and this text is written as a loud reminder. Endorsement A unique and surprising book about love. A book that goes against the grain, offering the reader an evocative feeling of suspension between desire and the uncertainty of its fulfilment. A daring book whose reading is a must because it offers a new perspective not yet encountered elsewhere. Barbara Sonzogni - Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. 606 $aEmotions (Philosophy) 606 $aPhilosophical anthropology 606 $aPhilosophy of mind 606 $aEthics 606 $aPhilosophy of feelings 606 $aPhilosophy of Anthropology 606 $aMoral Psychology 615 0$aEmotions (Philosophy) 615 0$aPhilosophical anthropology. 615 0$aPhilosophy of mind. 615 0$aEthics. 615 14$aPhilosophy of feelings. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Anthropology. 615 24$aMoral Psychology. 676 $a152.401 700 $aCastelli$b Alberto$078602 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910865287403321 996 $aA Love for Nothingness, a Love for Death$94168752 997 $aUNINA