Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sapphic and Platonic Erotics 2. The Paradoxical Passions of Shelley and Nietzsche 3. Simone de Beauvoir's Desperate Housewives 4. Levinas: Love as Responsibility 5. Colonial Love in Fanon and Moffatt 6. Irigaray: Loving Indirection 7. Barthes: A Lover's (Internet) Discourses 8. Butler and Foucault: Que(e)rying Marriage 9. Amorous Politics: Between Derrida and Nancy Conclusion Bibliography

About the Author

Linnell Secomb is Lecturer in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Reviews

"... a nuanced discussion that considers some of the more challenging cultural theorists, novelists, and filmmakers who have something to say about what love is... The book is wide-ranging and thoughtful... Recommended." -Choice "Includes theorizations of love as inflected by postcolonial theory, queer theory, and contemporary popular culture technology studies." -Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University