Love As Human Freedom (Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities) - Softcover

Kottman, Paul A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1503602273 ISBN 13: 9781503602274

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2017

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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About the Author

Paul A. Kottman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of A Politics of the Scene (Stanford, 2007) and the editor of Philosophers on Shakespeare (Stanford, 2009).

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1503602273
• ISBN 13: 9781503602274
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256