Beyond Romance

Beyond Romance critiques the romantic ideal that predominates contemporary thought and practice--it defines, explores, and advocates authentic love as a preferable alternative. The author claims that you can't genuinely love a person you don't know, and that the quality of love depends on the quality and extent of the knowing. Drawing heavily from the work of Merleau-Ponty, Dillon also takes up the classical treatments of love from Plato to the present, emphasizing Hegel, Freud, Sartre, and Derrida. Dillon argues that much of contemporary erotic malaise is traceable to the flaws in the romantic model, and that authentic love addresses these mistakes and promises relief.

Author: M. C. Dillon
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 10/05/2001
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.45d
ISBN: 9780791450987

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2002 pg. 7

About the Author
M. C. Dillon is Distinguished Teaching Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University. He is the author of Semiological Reductionism: A Critique of the Deconstructionist Movement in Postmodern Thought and the editor of Merleau-Ponty Vivant, published by SUNY Press, as well as the author of Merleau-Ponty's Ontology and the editor of Écart & DiffeOErance: Merleau-Ponty and Derrida on Seeing and Writing.

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