Thinking About Love : Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Thinking About Love: An Introduction -- Part I Human Vulnerability and the Limits of Love -- 1 Love and Death -- 2 Love’s Limit -- 3 The Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and Nihilism -- Part II Love, Desire, and the Divine -- 4 The Phenomenon...
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Thinking About Love: An Introduction -- Part I Human Vulnerability and the Limits of Love -- 1 Love and Death -- 2 Love’s Limit -- 3 The Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and Nihilism -- Part II Love, Desire, and the Divine -- 4 The Phenomenon of Kenotic Love in Continental Philosophy of Religion -- 5 Love’s Conditions: Passion and the Practice of Philosophy -- 6 What Can Love Say? Lyotard on Caritas and Eros -- 7 Finding a Place for Desire in the Life of the Mind: Arendt and Augustine -- Part III Love and Politics -- 8 Against Essentialist Conceptions of Love: Toward a Social-Material Theory -- 9 Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the Significance of Love for Politics -- Part IV The Phenomenological Experience of Love -- 10 Trust and the Experience of Love -- 11 The Time of Possible and Impossible Reciprocity: Love and Hate in Simone de Beauvoir -- 12 Intentionality and the Neuroscience of Love -- Part V Love Stories -- 13 Love Is Blind: Jacques Derrida -- 14 The Babies in Trees -- List of Contributors -- Index Ausführliche Beschreibung