The Ambiguity of Love: Beauvoir, Honneth and Arendt on the Relation Between Recognition, Power and Violence. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Ambiguity of Love: Beauvoir, Honneth and Arendt on the Relation Between Recognition, Power and Violence. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)
- Main Title:
- The Ambiguity of Love: Beauvoir, Honneth and Arendt on the Relation Between Recognition, Power and Violence
- Authors:
- Gregoratto, Federica
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: The paper sketches out an account of ambiguous and agonistic love by drawing on the work of Simone de Beauvoir, Axel Honneth and Hannah Arendt. To begin with, I reconstruct the ambiguity of love within the conceptual framework of a paradigm of recognition . I argue further that the social relation of love, understood as an intertwine between dependence and independence, entails a power dynamic. Insofar as the dynamic actualises as "power in concert" or "power with", namely as mutual empowerment, love unfolds as free love. Finally, I show how agonistic love is damaged by turning into violent domination.
- Is Part Of:
- Critical horizons. Volume 19:Issue 1(2018)
- Journal:
- Critical horizons
- Issue:
- Volume 19:Issue 1(2018)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 19, Issue 1 (2018)
- Year:
- 2018
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2018-0019-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 18
- Page End:
- 34
- Publication Date:
- 2018-01-02
- Subjects:
- Recognition -- love -- power -- domination -- violence -- freedom
Critical theory -- Periodicals
142.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://essential.metapress.com/content/122847 ↗
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/acumen/crh ↗
http://maneypublishing.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/14409917.2017.1376933 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1440-9917
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- Legaldeposit
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