Thinking about love [Texte imprimé] : essays in contemporary continental philosophy / edited by Diane Enns and Antonio Calcagno

"A 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"--Provided by publisher

Notes bibliogr.

Thinking about love : an introduction / Diane Enns and Antonio Calcagno -- Love and death / Todd May -- Love's limit / Diane Enns -- The subject in crisis : Kristeva on love, fath, and nihilism / John Caruana -- The phenomenom of kenotic love in continental philosophy of religion / Christina M. Gschwandtner -- Love's conditions : passion and the practice of philosophy / Felix Ó Murchadha -- What can love say? : Lyotard on caritas and eros / Mélanie Walton -- Finding a place for desire in the life of the mind : Arendt and Augustine / Antonio Calcagno -- Against essentialist conceptions of love : toward a social-material theory / Christian Lotz -- Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil on the significance of love for politics / Sophie Bourgault -- Trust and the experience of love / Fiona Utley -- The time of possible and impossible reciprocity : love and hate in Simone de Beauvoir / Marguerite La Caze -- Intentionality and the neuroscience of love / Dorothea Olkowski -- Love is blind : Jacques Derrida / Dawn McCance -- The babies in trees / Alphonso Lingi