Love in the Dark

Philosophy by Another Name

Diane Enns

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Columbia University Press
06 September 2016

Philosophy; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Gender studies: women; Sexual behaviour

"Intimate love opens us up to suffering, sacrifice, and loss. Is it always worth the risk? Consulting philosophers, writers, and poets who draw insights from material life, Diane Enns shines a light on the limits of erotic love, exploring its paradoxes through personal and philosophical reflections. Situating experience at the center of her inquiry, Enns conducts philosophy ""by another name,"" elaborating the ambiguities and risks of love with visceral clarity.

Love in the Dark claims that intimacy must accept risk as long as love does not destroy the self. Erotic love inspires an inexplicable affirmation of another but can erode autonomy and vulnerability. There is a limit to love, and appreciating it requires a rethinking of love's liberal paradigms, which Enns traces back to the hostility toward the body and eros in Christianity and the Western philosophical tradition. Against a legacy of an abstract and sanitized love, Enns recasts erotic attachment as an event linked to conditional circumstances. The value of love lies in its intensity and depth, and its end does not negate love's truth or significance. Writing in a lyrical, genre-defying style, Enns delineates the paradoxes of love in its relations to lust, abuse, suffering, and grief to reach an account faithful to human experience."

By: Diane Enns
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 368g
ISBN: 9780231178969
ISBN 10: 0231178964
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 06 September 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Preface Acknowledgments Part I. Legacy Ruined States What Is Love? Anarchic Eros The Cannibal Husbands of Our Futures Two Crucifixions If Only We Had Read the Song of Solomon Burning Find the Clitoris Shame Vulgar Love Ambivalent Pleasure Rigor Mortis Part II. Love The We Happy Love Sweet Apple Insatiable Demand for Presence Love for the Living The Infinite Plasticity of Position L'Amour Fou Beautification Pathological Love The Interworld The Gift ""Volo Ut Sis"" Part III. Limits Amputation ""You Made My Life Better"" On the Question of Worth My Best Thing Peeled Skin Can't or Won't The Angryman and the Sweetman Abusion A Misnomer The Paradox of Risk The House of Tragedy The Line A Bad Calculation Sweet Revenge Saving Leaving Part IV. Loss The Original Loss Slow Heart Iron Air Emotional Possibility Mourning Time Cosmic Gift Losing Is Ours Grieving the Living Singularity and Betrayal The Ambiguity of Loneliness Survival Monuments Afterword Notes Index"

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 for Love in the Dark: Philosophy by Another Name

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. -- Mari Ruti, author of The Call of Character: Living a Life Worth Living Love in the Dark is engaging, developing fresh and bold perspectives that challenge the conventional interpretations of love. -- Linell Secomb, author of Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture 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. -- Dawne McCance, author of Derrida on Religion: Thinker of Differance