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Todd McGowan is a Professor in the Department of Film and Television Studies at the University of Vermont. His many publications include Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets (2016) and Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis (2012).
Cindy Zeiher is a Lecturer in the School of Language, Political and Social Sciences at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. She is co-editor of the journal CT&T: Continental Thought and Theory.
Introduction, Todd McGowan and Cindy Zeiher / Part I: Love, Hegel and Lacan / 1. Hegel in Love, Todd McGowan / 2. Towards a Limitless Love or Mystical “Jouissance of Being”, Jelica Sumič / 3. Love as Thinking: Psychoanalysis Beyond Anti-Philosophy, Gabriel Tupinambá / 4. Love in Hegel’s Early Theology, Georgios Tsagdis / 5. All You Need is Love: Love in Knowledge, Knowledge in Love, Nicole Thomas / Part II: Love and the Political / 6. Love as a Category of the Political Economy: Pasolini as a Theorist of the lumpenproletariat, Agon Hamza / 7. Politics, Solidarity and the (Dis)Location of Love, Geoff Pfeifer / 8. The Dialectic of Law and Love in Islam, Sead Zimeri / 9. Love and Resistance, Jeff Robbins / 10. The ‘Crocodile’ Love of the State: Reformulating Gaze and Love in the Age of Suspiciousless Surveillance, Ryan Engley / Part III: Love as a Cultural and Mythical Concern / 11. Love: Emergence or Disappearance of Subjectivity? Robert Pfaller / 12. Cordelia’s Kiss, Sigi Jottkandt / 13. It’s Impossible: Melodrama, Reproduction and the Being-In-Otherness of Rousseau’s Amour de soi (self-love), Monique Rooney / 14. The Endless Space Between Words: A Lacanian Perspective on ‘Her’, Louis-Paul Willis / 15. Henry James and the Power of Love, Rex Butler / 16. Love in and from the Darkside, Garrick Cooper / Part IV: Love and Truth / 17. Love Between and Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, Alenka Zupančič / 18. On Why Love is a Black Square on White Square or Badiou on Love, Rado Riha / 19. Philosophy, Anxiety and Courage or How to Fall in Love with Wisdom, Frank Ruda / 20. Love: Between ‘Truth Procedure’ and ‘Semblance’, Lorenzo Chiesa / 21. Weak Love, Michael Grimshaw / 22. A New Thinking of Narcissism, Simone Drischel / 23. Struggle as Love Par Excellence: Zupančič avec Badiou, Cindy Zeiher / Index