Philosophy and Love introduces readers to philosophical reflections on
love from Plato to the present. Bringing philosophy together with
popular cultural analysis, Linnell Secomb provides an interesting and
engaging account of theories of love throughout history. Along the way,
reflections on same-sex desire, cross-cultural love, and internet
romance are considered against the ideas of Nietzsche, Beauvoir,
Irigaray, Derrida, and Fanon, and other contemporary cultural
commentators on the human condition. The work also looks at cultural
productions of love ranging from Sappho to Frankenstein by focusing on
archetypal stories of love and love gone wrong. Philosophy and Love
reveals an ethics and politics of love that discloses the paradoxes,
conflicts, and intensity of human love relations.
From the Publisher
"Includes theorizations of love as inflected by postcolonial
theory, queer theory, and contemporary popular culture technology
studies." --Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University