The Ambiguity of Love

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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12643239
AutoresFederica Gregoratto (0000-0003-3174-219X, Philosophy Department, The University of St. Gall, St. Gall, Switzerland, autor correspondente)
Ano2017
Volume19
Fascículo1
Páginas18-34
Data de publicação2017-10-04
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Horizons (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1440-9917 • E-ISSN: 1568-5160
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14409917.2017.1376933
OpenAlexW2762627540
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências 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