{"product_id":"thinking-about-love-9780271070964","title":"Thinking About Love","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The contributors—scholars from Canada, Australia, the UK, and the US—offer insightful examinations of love, in its romantic\/erotic, kenotic, friendship, and agapic forms. . . . A worthy foray into a topic of universal human experience, this collection will awaken readers to the value of what philosophy today says about love.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—S. Young \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“By bringing together a variety of critical approaches in contemporary Continental philosophy, ranging from phenomenology and psychoanalysis to neuroscience and Marxism, this comprehensive collection explores in depth the complexity, complicity, and possibility of love in its multiple manifestations: erotic, political, religious, and social. Through the undertheorized prism of love, the book addresses key contemporary philosophers—Arendt, Beauvoir, Derrida, Kristeva, Lyotard, Marx, Merleau-Ponty—and offers compelling rethinking of crucial philosophical themes, such as vulnerability, finitude, alterity, passions, nature, and materialism, as well as philosophy itself.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ewa Ziarek,author of \u003ci\u003eFeminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This collection opens up an overdue discussion of the intersections of love and thinking within the continental tradition.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Helen A. Fielding \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Philosophical Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The editors of this inspiring new collection rightly contend that the question of love is woefully under-treated in contemporary Continental philosophy. This failure has impoverished both philosophy and contemporary life, making this volume a timely and much-needed intervention as well as a cause for gratitude.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Jason M. Wirth,author of \u003ci\u003eCommiserating with Devastated Things: Milan Kundera and the Entitlements of Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThinking About Love: An Introduction\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiane Enns and Antonio Calcagno\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I\tHuman Vulnerability and the Limits of Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1\tLove and Death\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTodd May\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2\tLove’s Limit\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiane Enns\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3\tThe Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and Nihilism\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Caruana\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II\tLove, Desire, and the Divine\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4\tThe Phenomenon of Kenotic Love in Continental Philosophy of Religion\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristina M. Gschwandtner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5\tLove’s Conditions: Passion and the Practice of Philosophy\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFelix Ó Murchadha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6\tWhat Can Love Say? Lyotard on\u003ci\u003e Caritas\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEros\u003c\/i\u003e\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMélanie Walton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7\tFinding a Place for Desire in the Life of the Mind: Arendt and Augustine\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonio Calcagno\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart III\tLove and Politics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8\tAgainst Essentialist Conceptions of Love: Toward a Social-Material Theory\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Lotz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9\tHannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the Significance of Love for Politics\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSophie Bourgault\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart IV\tThe Phenomenological Experience of Love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10\tTrust and the Experience of Love\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiona Utley \t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11\tThe Time of Possible and Impossible Reciprocity: Love and Hate in Simone de Beauvoir\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarguerite La Caze\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12\tIntentionality and the Neuroscience of Love\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDorothea Olkowski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eV\tLove Stories\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13\tLove Is Blind: Jacques Derrida\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawne McCance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e14\tThe Babies in Trees\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlphonso Lingis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors\t\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\t \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pennsylvania State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400793792855,"sku":"9780271070964","price":63.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271070964.jpg?v=1730471592","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-about-love-9780271070964","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}