Thinking About Love - Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

About the author

Diane Enns is Associate Professor of Philosophy at McMaster University and the author of Speaking of Freedom and The Violence of Victimhood, the last also published by Penn State.Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College at Western University. His most recent book is Contemporary Italian Political Philosophy.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Assisted by: Antonio Calcagno (Editor), Antonio (Associate Professor Calcagno (Editor), Associate Professor Antonio (King's University College) Calcagno (Editor), Associate Professor Diane (McMaster University Enns (Editor), Diane Enns (Editor), Diane (UG Program Director Enns (Editor), Enns Diane (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.11.2015
• EAN: 9780271070964
• ISBN: 978-0-271-07096-4
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 544 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / General, PHILOSOPHY / Criticism, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought