
Sad Love
Romance and the Search for Meaning
Carrie Jenkins(Author)
Polity Press
1st Edition
Published on 16. June 2022
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-5095-3958-1 (ISBN)
Description
As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated.
Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can badly let us down. And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society foists upon us. Since we are inevitably disappointed by love, would we be better off without it?
No, says Carrie Jenkins. Instead, we need a new philosophy of love, one that recognises that the pain and suffering love causes are a natural, even a good part of what makes love worthwhile. What Carrie calls "Sad Love" offers no bogus "happy ever afters". Rather, it tries to find a way to properly integrate heartbreak and disappointment into the lived experience of love.
It's time we liberated love.
Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and difficult feeling. The people we love can badly let us down. And the ways we love are often quite different to the romantic ideals society foists upon us. Since we are inevitably disappointed by love, would we be better off without it?
No, says Carrie Jenkins. Instead, we need a new philosophy of love, one that recognises that the pain and suffering love causes are a natural, even a good part of what makes love worthwhile. What Carrie calls "Sad Love" offers no bogus "happy ever afters". Rather, it tries to find a way to properly integrate heartbreak and disappointment into the lived experience of love.
It's time we liberated love.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5095-3958-1 (9781509539581)
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Person
Carrie Jenkins is Professor of Philosophy and Canada Research Chair at the University of British Columbia.

