"Talk of love surrounds us - in movies, talk shows, advice books, pop songs, and novels. But how do people find and sustain real love in the midst of all this talk? In Talk of Love, Ann Swidler speaks with Middle Americans about their loves, both triumphant and disappointing. Sh…
"Talk of love surrounds us - in movies, talk shows, advice books, pop songs, and novels. But how do people find and sustain real love in the midst of all this talk? In Talk of Love, Ann Swidler speaks with Middle Americans about their loves, both triumphant and disappointing. Sh…
"Amorous Acts illustrates the value of psychoanalytic theory for comprehending relationships, experiences, art, politics, and all sorts of human interactions. More specifically, it employs psychoanalysis to show how queer theory is operating to effect a nonhetero-sexist social o…
Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the…
Emmanuel Levinas is best known for having reintroduced the question of ethics into the Continental philosophical tradition. In The Metaphysics of Love, however, Stella Sandford argues that an over-emphasis on ethics in the reception of Levinas's thought has covered over both the…
The author describes how her ideal society -one that aspires to justice and equal opportunity for all- can be achieved and sustained. She argues for activating people's most powerful and positive emotions, especially compassion and love, and describes practices, rituals, celebra…
Beschouwing over de liefde vanuit een historisch, sociaal, psychologisch, literair en filosofisch perspectief
Irigaray tracht te beantwoorden hoe we ons kunnen voortbewegen naar een nieuw tijdperk van 'sexual difference' waarin mannen en vrouwen langdurige relaties met elkaar kunnen aangaan, zonder dat de ander gereduceerd wordt tot de status van object. Als feministisch linguiste stelt…
In I Love to You, Luce Irigaray moves from the critique of patriarchy to an exploration of the ground for a possible inter-subjectivity between the two sexes. Continuing her rejection of demands for equality, Irigaray poses the question: how can we move to a new era of sexual di…
"All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies--God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy--are in disarray today, widely questioned, and rejected outright by the many people who have lost faith in them. But there is another value, rooted in the birth of …
