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Article: LOVE AND LUST AFTER LEVINAS AND LINGIS
- Article from:
- Philosophy Today
- Article date:
- April 1, 2008
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In A Natural History of Love, Diane Ackerman cites Stendal as asserting there are four kinds of love: mannered love, physical love, vanity love, passionate love.1 An unofficial count in Love in the Time of Cholera revealed the word "love" bestowed with twenty different modifiers.2 Yet, contemporary philosophy has been quite frugal in the distinctions it provides in its discourse on love. Perhaps therefore we have not yet understood love and lust.
Hegel gave desire a position of honor in philosophical thought that it has not had since The Symposium. He makes it (Begierde) the condition for the possibility of self-consciousness. In Hegel's account, desire is transcendence. Yet, Hegel did not ...