This edited volume offers a comprehensive view of various possible phenomenological approaches of the experience of love, ranging from classical historical perspectives up to contemporary and critical viewpoints. It explores both the crucial importance of the question of love for the history of phenomenology as well as the rich potential of phenomenology for a deeper insight in the experience of love and its various dimensions, such as its affective, relational, but also ethical and religious aspects.
Veronica Cibotaru is a research fellow at the College of Fellows – Center for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Studies of the University of Tübingen, and an associate researcher at the École Normale Supérieure – PSL, Husserl Archives. Her publications are situated mainly in the field of phenomenology and German philosophy. In 2023 she published a monograph titled
Le problème de la signification dans les philosophies de Kant et Husserl.
Iulian Apostolescu is a philosopher, editor and painter. His research focuses on transcendental philosophy, phenomenology, continental philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
Introduction: Love as a Deep Phenomenon
Veronica Cibotaru
PART 1: Philosophy, Phenomenology and Love
1 The Broken Heart of Thinking
Alfonso Cariolato 2 Phenomenology as Love: Reason and the Promise of Fidelity
Felix Ó Murchadha
PART 2: Phenomenology of Love from a Husserlian Perspective
3 On a Peculiar Individualisation in the Experience of Love: Kant and Husserl in Dialogue with Leibniz
Masumi Nagasaka 4 The Ethics of Love: a Husserlian Point of View
Susi Ferrarello 5
Erôs and
Philia in Husserl’s Ethics
Irene Breuer
PART 3: Phenomenology of Love from a Post-Husserlian Perspec-tive
6 Love: the Hidden Mood in Being and Time
Christos Hadjioannou 7 “A Non-desirable Desire”: the Difficult Levinassian Philosophy of Desire
Sophie Galabru 8 Love “is a Life which Binds Together:” Self-Love and the Other in Henry and Augustine
Joseph Rivera 9 Love as an Ontological Solution: Patočka on Love
Martin Ritter
PART 4: Love as Affectivity
10 Love and the Will: Brentano’s Theory of Correct Emotion
Susan Krantz Gabriel 11 Love and Fear as Asymmetric Opposites
Íngrid Vendrell Ferran 12 Through Windows of Love and Hatred
Eric J. Mohr 13 Loving is Surprising Each Other
Natalie Depraz
PART 5: Love as a Relational Experience
14 Love as a Gateway to Being
Valeria Bizzari and Giulio Caselli 15 Maternal Love
Claudia Serban 16 Unlove (or Love to Death)
Christophe Perrin 17 You do me wrong to take me out o’ th’ grave
Nicolas de Warren
PART 6: Love as a Dialogical Experience
18 The Eros of Dialogue
Paul Mendes-Flohr 19 Franz Rosenzweig’s Dialogical Experience: Towards a Jewish Phenomenology of Love
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg
PART 7: At the Crossroads of Phenomenology and Theology
20 Waiting on Love
Steven DeLay 21 Eros and Charity: on Seeing the Other
Ioan Alexandru Tofan 22 Meaningfulness and Loving: Phenomenology between Theological and Reli-gious Studies Perspectives on Christian Love
Charles A. Gillespie 23 Metaphysics of Agape
James G. Hart 24 Phenomenology of Love in Stein’s Early Work
Mette Lebech
PART 8: Final Opening: Phenomenology of Love beyond Western Bounda-ries
25 Zen, Wind and Sex: Ikkyū Sōjun’s Phenomenology of Desire
Lorenzo Marinucci
Index
This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, psychology, and theology.