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