The subject of love [[electronic resource] ] : Hélène Cixous and the feminine divine / / Sal Renshaw
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| Autore: |
Renshaw Sal <1964->
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| Titolo: |
The subject of love [[electronic resource] ] : Hélène Cixous and the feminine divine / / Sal Renshaw
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester, U.K. ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press |
| New York, : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 848.91409 |
| Soggetto topico: | Love in literature |
| Feminism in literature | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | Anders Nygren |
| Hélène Cixous | |
| Plato | |
| agapic love | |
| conditions of subjectivity | |
| divinity | |
| philosophies of love | |
| poetico-philosophy | |
| protestant theology | |
| sacred | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-201) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | *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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The subject of love |
| ISBN: | 1-84779-614-1 |
| 1-78170-295-0 | |
| 1-84779-339-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910791738303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Manchester studies in religion, culture, and gender.