Beyond RomanceSUNY Press, 11 okt 2001 - 188 pagina's Beyond Romance critiques the romantic ideal that predominates contemporary thought and practice it defines, explores, and advocates authentic love as a preferable alternative. The author claims that you can t genuinely love a person you don t know, and that the quality of love depends on the quality and extent of the knowing. Drawing heavily from the work of Merleau-Ponty, Dillon also takes up the classical treatments of love from Plato to the present, emphasizing Hegel, Freud, Sartre, and Derrida. Dillon argues that much of contemporary erotic malaise is traceable to the flaws in the romantic model, and that authentic love addresses these mistakes and promises relief. |
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NAMES OF LOVE | 1 |
ALETHEIA POIESIS AND EROS TRUTH AND UNTRUTH IN THE POETIC CONSTRUCTION OF LOVE | 13 |
NATURAL LAW AND SEXUAL MORALITY | 23 |
SEXLOVE MARGINALITY AND RECTITUDE | 39 |
ROMANTIC LOVE | 49 |
VIRTUAL BODIESBODIES OF FLESH | 67 |
MOTHERLOVE AND SEXLOVE | 81 |
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