How can we articulate a philosophy of love? This volume stages encounters between contemporary understandings of love and philosophy. It considers particular continental philosophers who think about love and its relation to desire and sexuality. The essays in this collection contend with psychoanalysis as a line of thought that exposes love's role in all knowledge. Drawing on the work of key thinkers such as Zizek, Badiou, Lacan, Hegel, Kierkegaard and Marx, this book puts love to work as a way of understanding the subject of desire as a figure of knowledge shaped by the event of love.
Introduction, Todd McGowan and Cindy Zeiher / 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. Love as Thinking: Psychoanalysis Beyond Anti-Philosophy, Gabriel Tupinamba / 4. Love in Hegel's Early Theology, Georgios Tsagdis / 5. All You Need is Love: Love in Knowledge, Knowledge in Love, Nicole Thomas / Part II: Love and the Political / 6. Love as a Category of the Political Economy: Pasolini as a Theorist of the lumpenproletariat, Agon Hamza / 7. Politics, Solidarity and the (Dis)Location of Love, Geoff Pfeifer / 8. The Dialectic of Law and Love in Islam, Sead Zimeri / 9. Love and Resistance, Jeff Robbins / 10. The 'Crocodile' Love of the State: Reformulating Gaze and Love in the Age of Suspiciousless Surveillance, Ryan Engley / Part III: Love as a Cultural and Mythical Concern / 11. Love: Emergence or Disappearance of Subjectivity? Robert Pfaller / 12. Cordelia's Kiss, Sigi Jottkandt / 13. It's Impossible: Melodrama, Reproduction and the Being-In-Otherness of Rousseau's Amour de soi (self-love), Monique Rooney / 14. The Endless Space Between Words: A Lacanian Perspective on 'Her', Louis-Paul Willis / 15. Henry James and the Power of Love, Rex Butler / 16. Love in and from the Darkside, Garrick Cooper / Part IV: Love and Truth / 17. Love Between and Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Alenka Zupancic / 18. On Why Love is a Black Square on White Square or Badiou on Love, Rado Riha / 19. Philosophy, Anxiety and Courage or How to Fall in Love with Wisdom, Frank Ruda / 20. Love: Between 'Truth Procedure' and 'Semblance', Lorenzo Chiesa / 21. Weak Love, Michael Grimshaw / 22. A New Thinking of Narcissism, Simone Drischel / 23. Struggle as Love Par Excellence: Zupancic avec Badiou, Cindy Zeiher / Index
