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Love Troubles
A Philosophy of Eros
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What does it mean to love? Does love complete us, giving us purpose and meaning? Or does it tie us down and even harm us? Is erotic desire complicit in oppression, or could it deliver liberation? Are our desires extricable from the wrongs of our societies?...
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What does it mean to love? Does love complete us, giving us purpose and meaning? Or does it tie us down and even harm us? Is erotic desire complicit in oppression, or could it deliver liberation? Are our desires extricable from the wrongs of our societies? And in today's world, is love still worth the trouble?
This book develops a critical theory of sexual love and friendship, offering profound new ways to understand the troublesome nature of eros. Federica Gregoratto explores the ambivalence of erotic love, which is at once intimately interwoven with heterosexism, racism, and neoliberal capitalism yet entices us with the tantalising possibility of transformation.
Drawing on a rich array of sources—from Frankfurt School critical theory to feminist thought and contemporary philosophies of emotions and affects, as well as poetry, novels, films, and music—she argues that love provides unexpected resources for political agency, resistance, and emancipation.
Gregoratto makes a passionate defence of erotic freedom as an adventurous process through which we understand, together with others, who we are and who we want to become, both in our individual existences and in our social lives. Wide-ranging and daring, Love Troubles invites us to reflect on our fraught amorous experiences, showing why we should cherish and learn from them.
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Book Details
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ISBN: 9780231217637
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 21 January 2025
Country: United States
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly
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Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 280
About the Author
Federica Gregoratto is visiting associate professor of practical philosophy at the University of Lucerne. She has been a guest professor of philosophy at Freie Universität Berlin and a lecturer in social and political philosophy at the University of St. Gallen.
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