性愛の哲学 Love Troubles : A Philosophy of Eros (New Directions in Critical Theory)

Gregoratto, Federica

Columbia University Press（2025/01発売）

Columbia University Press（2025/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 280 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780231217637
• DDC分類 128.46

Full Description

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 tantalizing 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 defense 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.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Troubles We Desire
1. Some Kinda Love: A (Provisional) Map
2. "He Has Kissed Her with His Freedom": Bound by Ambivalence
Excursus: Why Erotic Love?
3. The Mess We Are In: Toward a Critical Theory of Love
4. Avalanche: Erotic Emotions and Affects
5. Joy as an Act of Resistance: Erotic Education
Notes
Bibliography
Index