| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
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Manchester Studies in Religion, Culture and Gender |
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Manchester studies in religion, culture, and gender.
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| Contents |
9780719069604; 9780719069604; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION In the spirit of the gift of love; CHAPTER 1 Speaking of love: philosophy, theology, and French feminism; CHAPTER 2 Feminist theology: for the love of God; CHAPTER 3 Hélène Cixous' subject of love; CHAPTER 4 Graceful subjectivities; CHAPTER 5 Divine Promethean love; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
*The Subject of Love: Hélène Cixous and the Feminine Divine* is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred; often reserved only for God; and rarely thought of as a human achievement. This book is a substantial engagement with her philosophies of love, inviting the reader to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open us to something like a divine love of the other. Renshaw follows this thread in this genealogy of abundant love: the thread that |
| Analysis |
Anders Nygren |
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Hélène Cixous |
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Plato |
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agapic love |
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conditions of subjectivity |
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divinity |
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philosophies of love |
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poetico-philosophy |
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protestant theology |
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sacred |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Cixous, Hélène, 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Cixous, Helene, 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cixous, Hélène, 1937- fast |
| Subject |
Love in literature.
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Feminist theology.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Feminist theology
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Love in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781847793393 |
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1847793398 |
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9781781702956 |
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1781702950 |
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