Love in Time: An Ethical Inquiry - Hardcover

Bialek, Fannie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226843890 ISBN 13: 9780226843896

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2025

Synopsis

A meditative reconsideration of what it means to love as ever-changing beings in an ever-changing world.

We live in time, and so we love in time. Our beloveds change, and we change beside them. Sometimes we change apart, but it is this very changeableness, the braving of an unknown future together, that endears us to our lovers. Far from an ideal of constancy and commitment, then, love is an endeavor fraught with uncertainty.

In this book, Fannie Bialek sketches a view of love that does not ignore the vagaries of life but embraces them. In contrast to philosophical and religious attempts to secure love against finitude, Bialek’s love embraces its susceptibility to change and accepts the ethical challenges such change introduces. Attentive to our deepest vulnerabilities, Bialek develops a fresh ethics of love grounded by our humility before time.

About this title

About the Author

Fannie Bialek is assistant professor of religion and politics at Washington University in St. Louis.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226843890
• ISBN 13: 9780226843896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 206