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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2009.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (224 pages). |
ISBN: | 9781847793393 |