Philosophy and Love - by Linnell Secomb (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Philosophy and Love reveals an ethics and politics of love that discloses the paradoxes, conflicts, and intensity of human love relations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><i>Philosophy and Love</i> introduces readers to philosophical reflections on love from Plato to the present. Bringing philosophy together with popular cultural analysis, Linnell Secomb provides an interesting and engaging account of theories of love throughout history. Along the way, reflections on same-sex desire, cross-cultural love, and internet romance are considered against the ideas of Nietzsche, Beauvoir, Irigaray, Derrida, and Fanon, and other contemporary cultural commentators on the human condition. The work also looks at cultural productions of love ranging from Sappho to Frankenstein by focusing on archetypal stories of love and love gone wrong. <i>Philosophy and Love</i> reveals an ethics and politics of love that discloses the paradoxes, conflicts, and intensity of human love relations.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>. . . a nuanced discussion that considers some of the more challenging cultural theorists, novelists, and filmmakers who have something to say about what love is. . . . The book is wide-ranging and thoughtful . . . Recommended.</p>-- "Choice"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Linnell Secomb is Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia. </p>
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