Loving recognition
A Proposal for the Practical Efficacy of Love as a Public Virtue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2253142 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Rapport (0000-0003-2803-0212, Department of Social Anthropology University of St Andrews, St Andrews Fife KY16 9AL UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 126-144 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9655.12755 |
| OpenAlex | W2775213578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 14 |
The anthropology of love has tended to focus on the romantic, and to explore its universality. In this article I ask a different kind of question of love. How might love be recruited as a moral force and deployed as a public virtue? I conceive of love not solely or principally as a private and domestic virtue but as a public and civil practice: a structuring of social interaction by means of affective appreciation of individual others. I understand love as the human capacity and the human practice of respecting the individuality of other lives. The desirous appreciation and affirmation of another 'I' - the loving attention - serves to surmount the customary 'category-thinking' by which the world is normally apprehended: the generalizing, homogenizing, and stereotyping that characterize a culture's symbolic identification of the world. Loving recognition is such that the individuality of another life, its precious integrity and uniqueness, may be socially accommodated
Aesthetics · Epistemic virtue · Epistemology · Identification (biology · Psychoanalysis · Romance · Sociology · Universality (dynamical systems · Virtue · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |