The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, Futures

The Theory of Love: Ideals,Limits,Futures explores love as a resource for creating bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom, offering ethical frames for understanding changing definitions of love and intimacy in the context of marriage equality and post-nuclear forms of kinship and care. It develops an original post-sentimental concept of love to explain emergent intimacies and affiliations beyond the binary couple.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 87 pages
Publication date: 17 June 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, and Futures delves into captivating narratives that reclaim a vision of intimate life as a catalyst for forging bonds beyond heterosexual coupledom. This comprehensive volume presents a diverse range of ethical frameworks to comprehend evolving definitions of love, intimacy, and interdependence within the backdrop of ongoing battles for marriage equality and the growing acknowledgment of post-nuclear forms of kinship and care. It wholeheartedly embraces these post-nuclear arrangements while transcending the false dichotomy between collective action and the celebration of profoundly personal and ineffable pleasures. By traversing the intricacies of love across contemporary philosophy, politics, film, new media, and literature, The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, and Futures emerges as an innovative post-sentimental concept of love, illuminating the emergence of new intimacies and affiliations beyond the traditional binary couple.

This book holds immense appeal to scholars and postgraduate students spanning the humanities and social sciences, serving as a valuable teaching resource for undergraduate students as well. Its interdisciplinary nature makes it a sought-after resource for academics and students in literary and film studies, philosophy, gender and sexuality studies, and critical and cultural studies.

Through its thoughtful exploration, The Theory of Love: Ideals, Limits, and Futures offers a profound and multifaceted perspective on the complexities of love, challenging our preconceptions and expanding our understanding of human relationships in the modern world.

Weight: 138g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030715571
Edition number: 1st ed. 2021