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Item Details
Title:
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LOVE AS HUMAN FREEDOM
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By: |
Paul A. Kottman |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£87.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0804776768 |
ISBN 13: |
9780804776769 |
Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
30 May, 2017 |
Series: |
Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities |
Pages: |
256 |
Description: |
This book argues that love is a practice through we make sense of fundamental questions-from the propagation of life, to the inevitability of death. Acts of love not only reflect current social values but instead make new social realities, such as feminism or same-sex marriage, come into being and thus help us to explain immense historical shifts. |
Synopsis: |
Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts-from the rise of feminism and the emergence of bourgeois family life, to the struggles for abortion rights and birth control and the erosion of a gender-based division of labor. Drawing on Hegel, Paul A. Kottman argues that love generates and explains expanded possibilities for freely lived lives. Through keen interpretations of the best known philosophical and literary depictions of its topic-including Shakespeare, Plato, Nietzsche, Ovid, Flaubert, and Tolstoy-his book treats love as a fundamental way that we humans make sense of temporal change, especially the inevitability of death and the propagation of life. |
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US |
Imprint: |
Stanford University Press |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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