Linnell Secomb0253219477, 9780253219473, 9780748623686, 074862368X, 9780748623679, 0748623671
Philosophy and Love introduces readers to philosophical reflections on love from Plato to the present. Bringing philosophy together with popular cultural analysis, Linnell Secomb provides an interesting and engaging account of theories of love throughout history. Along the way, reflections on same-sex desire, cross-cultural love, and internet romance are considered against the ideas of Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Irigaray, Derrida, and Fanon, and other contemporary cultural commentators on the human condition. The work also looks at cultural productions of love ranging from Sappho to Frankenstein by focusing on archetypal stories of love and love gone wrong. Philosophy and Love reveals an ethics and politics of love that discloses the paradoxes, conflicts, and intensity of human love relations. |
Table of contents :
Acknowledgements……Page 7
Introduction……Page 10
1.Sapphic and Platonic Erotics……Page 19
2.Paradoxical Passions in Shelley and Nietzsche……Page 33
3.Simone de Beauvoir’s Desperate Housewives……Page 49
4.Levinas: Love, Justice and Responsibility……Page 67
5.Colonial Love in Fanon and Moffatt……Page 84
6.Irigaray: Re-directing the Gift of Love……Page 102
7.Barthes: A Lover’s (Internet) Discourses……Page 119
8.Butler and Foucault: Que(e)rying Marriage……Page 135
9.Amorous Politics: Between Derrida and Nancy……Page 151
Conclusion……Page 166
References……Page 172
Index……Page 179 |
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