The Ambiguity of Love

Beauvoir, Honneth and Arendt on the Relation Between Recognition, Power and Violence

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12643239
AutoresFederica Gregoratto (0000-0003-3174-219X, Philosophy Department, The University of St. Gall, St. Gall, Switzerland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen19
Número1
Páginas18-34
Fecha de publicación2017-10-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Horizons (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14409917.2017.1376933
OpenAlexW2762627540
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas16

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

Aggression · Agonistic behaviour · Ambiguity · Empowerment · Epistemology · Independence (probability theory · Linguistics · Political science · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Relation (database · Sociology · Computer Science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre · Social Psychology