Love in the Dark

Diane Enns

Diane Enns

Love in the Dark

Philosophy by Another Name

Columbia University Press | 2016

https://doi.org/10.7312/enns17896

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About this book

A personal and philosophical account of the ambiguity of erotic love.

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Diane Enns is associate professor of philosophy at McMaster University. She is the author of The Violence of Victimhood (2012) and Speaking of Freedom: Philosophy, Politics, and the Struggle for Liberation (2007) and the coeditor of Thinking About Love: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy (2015).

Reviews

Dawne McCance, author of Derrida on Religion: Thinker of Differance:
How can a philosopher who is heir of the Western tradition write of love without exceeding the fixed boundary that tradition posits between logos and eros? Moving beyond the confines of a disembodied and dematerialized order of reason, Diane Enns opens this reflection on love to the rich philosophical terrain of fiction, memoir, and poetry, allowing passion—her own and that of such thinkers as Augustine, Arendt, Kristeva, Cixous, and Gillian Rose—to infuse and inform her study. This is, indeed, philosophy by another name.

Linell Secomb, author of Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture:
Love in the Dark is engaging, developing fresh and bold perspectives that challenge the conventional interpretations of love.

Mari Ruti, author of The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living:
Diane Enns manages to strike a delicate balance between the intensely personal and the rigorously intellectual. She presents a profound meditation on love and its loss, passion and despair, risking everything and surviving despite everything. These are timeless, all-too-human topics.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	vii
Preface Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xi
Acknowledgments Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xix
Part I. Legacy
Ruined States Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	3
What Is Love? Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	4
Anarchic Eros Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	9
The Cannibal Husbands of Our Futures Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	12
Two Crucifixions Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	14
If Only We Had Read the Song of Solomon Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	19
Burning Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	21
Find the Clitoris Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	23
Shame Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	24
Vulgar Love Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	26
Ambivalent Pleasure Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	31
Rigor Mortis Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	35
Part II. Love
The We Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	41
Happy Love Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	43
Sweet Apple Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	46
Insatiable Demand for Presence Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	51
Love for the Living Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	53
The Infinite Plasticity of Position Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	56
L’Amour Fou Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	57
Beautification Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	61
Pathological Love Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	65
The Interworld Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	68
The Gift Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	72
“Volo Ut Sis” Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	73
Part III. Limits
Amputation Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	79
“You Made My Life Better” Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	81
On the Question of Worth Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	85
My Best Thing Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	86
Peeled Skin Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	88
Can’t or Won’t Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	93
The Angryman and the Sweetman Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	95
Abusion Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	97
A Misnomer Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	101
The Paradox of Risk Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	105
The House of Tragedy Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	108
The Line Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	109
A Bad Calculation Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	112
Sweet Revenge Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	115
Saving Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	117
Leaving Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	119
Part IV. Loss
The Original Loss Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	123
Slow Heart Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	126
Iron Air Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	127
Emotional Possibility Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	129
Mourning Time Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	132
Cosmic Gift Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	134
Losing Is Ours Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	137
Grieving the Living Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	141
Singularity and Betrayal Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	143
The Ambiguity of Loneliness Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	146
Survival Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	149
Monuments Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	157
Afterword Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	159
Notes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	165
Bibliography Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	175
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	181

Love in the Dark

Philosophy by Another Name

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