Thinking about love: Essays in contemporary continental philosophy

Does love command an ineffability that remains inaccessible to the philosopher? The essays collected in Thinking About Love take up the nature and experience of love with reference to some of our best-known Continental philosophers. The writings here focus on the contradictions and limits of love, manifested in such phenomena as trust, abuse, grief, death, violence, politics, and desire. Thinking About Love does not offer prescriptive claims …