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The subject of love : Hélène Cixous and the feminine divine

*The Subject of Love: Helene Cixous and the Feminine Divine* is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred; often reserved only for God; and rarely thought of as a hum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Renshaw, Sal
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2009.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:*The Subject of Love: Helene Cixous and the Feminine Divine* is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred; often reserved only for God; and rarely thought of as a human achievement. This book is a substantial engagement with her philosophies of love, inviting the reader to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open us to something like a divine love of the other. Renshaw follows this thread in this genealogy of abundant love: the thread that.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (224 pages).
ISBN:9781847793393