| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 176 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"Philosophy and Love" introduces the history of philosophical reflections on love. It brings together philosophy with cultural analysis to provide an accessible and engaging account of conventional theories of love as well as the controversial reformulations evident in same-sex desire, cross-cultural love and internet romance. Starting with Plato, but focusing especially on contemporary European philosophy, this book introduces figures such as Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Irigaray, Derrida and Fanon. Explaining these philosophical approaches in clear and accessible terms, "Philosophy and Love" also engages with cultural productions - ranging from Sappho to "Frankenstein", and from "Hiroshima Mon Amour" to "Desperate Housewives"--Enabling an exchange between philosophical and cultural theories. Love stories are also central to this interdisciplinary book, revealing the ethical and the political as well as the personal implications of lover's discourses. Embracing both the sentimental and the political this deconstructive reading discloses the paradoxes, conflicts and intensities of the love relation. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Sapphic and Platonic Erotics -- Paradoxical Passions in Shelley and Nietzsche -- Simone de Beauvoir's Desperate Housewives -- Levinas: Love, Justice and Responsibility -- Colonial Love in Fanon and Moffatt -- Irigaray: Re-directing the Gift of Love -- Barthes: A Lover's (Internet) Discourses -- Butler and Foucault: Que(e)rying Marriage -- Amorous Politics: Between Derrida and Nancy. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Love -- Philosophy.
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Love -- Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Secomb, Linnell. Philosophy and love. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2007 9780748623679 0748623671 (OCoLC)75713604 |
| ISBN |
9780748637768 (electronic book) |
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0748637761 (electronic book) |
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1280866519 |
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9781280866517 |
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9780748623686 (paperback) |
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074862368X (paperback) |
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9780748623679 (hardcover) |
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0748623671 (hardcover) |
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