Love in Time
An Ethical Inquiry
Seiten
2025
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-84389-6 (ISBN)
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-84389-6 (ISBN)
A meditative reconsideration of what it means to love as ever-changing beings in an ever-changing world.
We live in time, and so we love in time. Our beloveds change, and we change beside them. Sometimes we change apart, but it is this very changeableness, the braving of an unknown future together, that endears us to our lovers. Far from an ideal of constancy and commitment, then, love is an endeavor fraught with uncertainty.
In this book, Fannie Bialek sketches a view of love that does not ignore the vagaries of life but embraces them. In contrast to philosophical and religious attempts to secure love against finitude, Bialek’s love embraces its susceptibility to change and accepts the ethical challenges such change introduces. Attentive to our deepest vulnerabilities, Bialek develops a fresh ethics of love grounded by our humility before time.
We live in time, and so we love in time. Our beloveds change, and we change beside them. Sometimes we change apart, but it is this very changeableness, the braving of an unknown future together, that endears us to our lovers. Far from an ideal of constancy and commitment, then, love is an endeavor fraught with uncertainty.
In this book, Fannie Bialek sketches a view of love that does not ignore the vagaries of life but embraces them. In contrast to philosophical and religious attempts to secure love against finitude, Bialek’s love embraces its susceptibility to change and accepts the ethical challenges such change introduces. Attentive to our deepest vulnerabilities, Bialek develops a fresh ethics of love grounded by our humility before time.
Fannie Bialek is assistant professor of religion and politics at Washington University in St. Louis.
Preface
1. Wanting Without Knowing
2. Accounting for Love
3. Christian Agape and the Vulnerability of Worldly Goods
4. Promises and Obligations: On Loving the Dying
Afterword: Ethics Without an Ending
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.10.2025 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 399 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-226-84389-0 / 0226843890 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-226-84389-6 / 9780226843896 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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