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

• Pubblicazione: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vii, 262 pages )
• Disciplina: 128.46
• Soggetto topico: Love; Continental philosophy
• Persona (resp. second.): EnnsDiane; CalcagnoAntonio <1969->
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Thinking about love
• ISBN: 0-271-07618-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809217103321
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