{"product_id":"9780271070964-thinking-about-love","title":"Thinking About Love","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEssays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDoes love command an ineffability that remains inaccessible to the philosopher?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThinking About Love\u003c\/i\u003e considers the nature and experience of love through the writing of well-known Continental philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Derrida, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvolving forms of social organization, rapid developments in the field of psychology, and novel variations on relationships demand new approaches to and ways of talking about love. Rather than offering prescriptive claims, this volume explores how one might think about the concept philosophically, without attempting to resolve or alleviate its ambiguities, paradoxes, and limitations. The essays focus on the contradictions and limits of love, manifested in such phenomena as trust, abuse, grief, death, violence, politics, and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn erudite examination of the many facets of love, this book\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003efills a lacuna in the philosophy of this richly complicated topic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with the editors, the contributors are Sophie Bourgault, John Caruana, Christina M. Gschwandtner, Marguerite La Caze, Alphonso Lingis, Christian Lotz, Todd May, Dawne McCance, Dorothea Olkowski, Felix Ó Murchadha, Fiona Utley, and Mélanie Walton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53567271076214,"sku":"9780271070964","price":70.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_31183017.jpg?v=1730915648","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780271070964-thinking-about-love","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}