Sad Love

Romance and the Search for Meaning
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5095-3958-1
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.

Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can let us down badly. And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society foists upon us. Since we are inevitably disappointed by love, wouldn’t we be better off without it?

No, says Carrie Jenkins. Instead, we need a new philosophy of love, one that recognizes that the pain and suffering love causes are a natural, even a good part of what makes love worthwhile. What Jenkins calls “sad love” offers no bogus “happy ever afters”. Rather, it tries to find a way properly to integrate heartbreak and disappointment into the lived experience of love.

It’s time we liberated love.

Also available as an audiobook.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jenkins, Carrie

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Chapter 1: The Paradox of Happiness
Chapter 2: The Romantic Paradox
Chapter 3: Daimons
Chapter 4: Know Thyself
Chapter 5: Eudaimonic Love

Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Carrie Jenkins is an award-winning philosopher, novelist and poet. She is also Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia.