Can Philosophy Love? (eBook)

Reflections and Encounters

Todd McGowan, Cindy Zeiher (Herausgeber)

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2017
336 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-324-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume considers formalisations of love in the 21^st century. Engaging with the Slovenian School of Philosophy, the book contends that psychoanalysis is the one line of thought that exposes the role that love plays in all knowledge, emphasising the importance of love in these unsettled times.

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How can we articulate a philosophy of love? This volume stages encounters between contemporary understandings of love and philosophy. It considers particular continental philosophers who think about love and its relation to desire and sexuality. The essays in this collection contend with philosophy and psychoanalysis as lines of thought that expose love's role in all knowledge. Drawing on the work of key thinkers such as Zizek, Badiou, Lacan, Hegel, Vattimo, Caygill, Levinas, Menshikov and Marx, this book puts love to work as a way of understanding the subject of desire as a figure of knowledge shaped by the event of love.

Autor

lt;span style="font-weight:bold;">Todd McGowan is a Professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont. His many publications include Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016) and Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2012).

Cindy Zeiher is a Lecturer in the School of Language, Political and Social Sciences at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is co-editor of the journal CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory.

Inhalt

Introduction, Todd McGowan and Cindy Zeiher / Acknowledgements / Part I: Love, Hegel and Lacan / 1. Hegel in Love, Todd McGowan / 2. Towards a Limitless Love or Mystical “Jouissance of Being”, Jelica Sumič / 3. On the Tendency to the Debasement of the Universal in the Sphere of Love, Gabriel Tupinambá / 4L-D-L or Lacan’s Dialectics of Love, Fabio Vighi / 5. Love, or Lack Thereof, Nicole Thomas / 6. Love-Life, Frank Ruda / 7. Love and the Apparatus, Georgois Tsagdis / Part II: Love and Politics / 8. Against Love as a Political Category, Agon Hamza / 9. Ideological Love: Russian Conservative Thinkers of the Fin-de-siecle, Henrietta Mondry / 10. Towards a Politics of Love by Way of Resistance, Jeff Robbins / 11. Politics, Solidarity and the (Dis)Location of Love, Geoff Pfeifer / Part III: Love as a Cultural and Mythical Concern 12. Cordelia’s Kiss, Sigi Jöttkandt / 13. Love and Surveillance: Reformulating the State Gaze in the “Age of 1984”, Ryan Engley / 14. Love’s Intermediary: The Aesthetics of Rousseau’s Amour de Soi, Monique Rooney / 15. The “Endless Space Between Words”: Desire, Fantasy and Interface in Her, Louis-Paul Willis / Part IV: Love, Logic and (Impossible) Demand / 16. On Why Love is a Black Square on a White Square, or Badou on Love, Rado Riha / 17. Weak Love? Mike Grimshaw / 18. Beyond Narcissism: Emmanuel Levinas and “The Wisdom of Love”, Simone Drischel / 19. Struggle as Love Par Excellence: Zupančič avec Badiou, Cindy Zeiher / Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.12.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 10 Illustrations including: - 10 Black & White Illustrations.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Continental Philosophy • Critical theory • film philosophy • Philosophies of Love and Sex • Philosophy of Love • Philosophy of Love and Sex • Political Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-324-1 / 1786603241
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-324-1 / 9781786603241