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Autore: | Renshaw Sal <1964-> |
Titolo: | The subject of love [[electronic resource] ] : Hélène Cixous and the feminine divine / / Sal Renshaw |
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 |
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