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The Radicalism of Romantic Love: Critical Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

The Radicalism of Romantic Love Critical Perspectives

Edited By Renata Grossi, David West Copyright 2017
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge
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Undoubtedly Romantic love has come to saturate our culture and is often considered to be a, or even the, major existential goal of our lives, capable of providing us with both our sense of worth and way of being in the world. The Radicalism of Romantic Love interrogates the purported radicalism of Romantic love from philosophical, cultural and psychoanalytic perspectives, exploring whether it... Read more

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction (Renata Grossi and David West)

1. Love as a Political Force: Romantic Love, Love-Politics and Solidarity (Ann Ferguson)

2. Beyond the Romantic Constellation of Sex, Marriage and Love (David West)

3. The Rise and Fall of the Romantic Ideal (Berit Brogaard)

4. Freud on Romantic Love: Strange, Disappointing, and Satisfying (Michael P. Levine)

5. Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Radical Romantic Love (Skye Cleary)

6. Depressive Love: A Social Pathology (Emma Engdahl)

7. Libertine Reveries: Romantic Love in the Time of Radical Terror (Clara Tuite)

8. What Kind of Love is Nietzsche’s Amor fati? (James Martel)

9. Falling for the Collective: When Love Embraces the Political (Nagore García Fernández)

10. Romantic Love as a Political Strategy in the Same-sex Marriage Debate (Renata Grossi)

Index

Biography

Renata Grossi is Freilich Foundation Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences at the Australian National University.

David West is Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra.

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