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This volume considers formalisations of love in the 21st century. Engaging with the Slovenian School of Philosophy, the book contends that psychoanalysis is the one line of thought that exposes the role that love plays in all knowledge, emphasising the importance of love in these unsettled times.
List of contents
Introduction, Todd McGowan and Cindy Zeiher /Acknowledgements / Part I: Love, Hegel and Lacan / 1. Hegel in Love, Todd McGowan / 2. Towards a Limitless Love or Mystical "Jouissance of Being", Jelica Sumic / 3. On the Tendency to the Debasement of the Universal in the Sphere of Love, Gabriel Tupinambá / 4L-D-L or Lacan's Dialectics of Love, Fabio Vighi / 5. Love, or Lack Thereof, Nicole Thomas / 6. Love-Life, Frank Ruda / 7. Love and the Apparatus, Georgois Tsagdis / Part II: Love and Politics / 8. Against Love as a Political Category, Agon Hamza / 9. Ideological Love: Russian Conservative Thinkers of the Fin-de-siecle, Henrietta Mondry / 10. Towards a Politics of Love by Way of Resistance, Jeff Robbins / 11. Politics, Solidarity and the (Dis)Location of Love, Geoff Pfeifer / Part III: Love as a Cultural and Mythical Concern 12. Cordelia's Kiss, Sigi Jöttkandt / 13. Love and Surveillance: Reformulating the State Gaze in the "Age of 1984", Ryan Engley / 14. Love's Intermediary: The Aesthetics of Rousseau's Amour de Soi, Monique Rooney / 15. The "Endless Space Between Words": Desire, Fantasy and Interface in Her, Louis-Paul Willis / Part IV: Love, Logic and (Impossible) Demand / 16. On Why Love is a Black Square on a White Square, or Badou on Love, Rado Riha / 17. Weak Love? Mike Grimshaw / 18. Beyond Narcissism: Emmanuel Levinas and "The Wisdom of Love", Simone Drischel / 19. Struggle as Love Par Excellence: Zupancic avec Badiou, Cindy Zeiher / Index
About the author
Cindy Zeiher is a Lacanian psychoanalyst in training, translator and senior lecturer at Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha/University of Canterbury, where she teaches modernism and postmodernism in the human services program. Her work explores psychoanalytic interventions and interpretations relating to subjectivity, ontology, politics and creativity, especially music. Her poetry has been published and anthologised in Aotearoa/New Zealand and internationally.
Summary
This volume considers formalisations of love in the 21st century. Engaging with the Slovenian School of Philosophy, the book contends that psychoanalysis is the one line of thought that exposes the role that love plays in all knowledge, emphasising the importance of love in these unsettled times.
