...A theory of cosmopolitanism is often seen as perpetuating a totalising understanding of humanity and some demanding notions such as brotherhood, responsibility towards the Other with capital O, love of the neighbour, philanthropy, peace, etc. The chapter explores how this demandingness...

... and a consumerist economy, which fosters a modernist sense of anxiety and disenchantment. Looking at a wide range of Freeman’s stories, including “A Wayfaring Couple,” “Two Old Lovers,” “For the Love of One’s Self,” “Humble Pie,” “A Guest in Sodom,” “The Cloak Also,” “Sweet Flowering Perennial” and the collection...

...” as a reflection on where sexually nonconforming women writers fit in national literary histories. After using the essay to demonstrate that Freeman is an important precursor to Warner, the chapter traces an intertextual relationship between Warner’s fiction of the 1960s, particularly “A Love Match” (1964...

...Music, or something approaching music, such as the musiscalization of the voice in poetry, or the musicalization of the image, possesses the ability to affect us—to elicit goosebumps, tears. 25th Hour Lee Björk Björk All Is Full of Love Cunningham Cunningham Chris goosebumps Shouse Eric...

... of the Scandinavian nations and temper the universalism of her earlier works. Whereas the Solitary Walker represents solipsism as well as abstract love of humankind, Wollstonecraft’s persona finds in reverie a new kind of philanthropic subjectivity. Short Residence derives its philanthropic ethos...

...This chapter interprets Spinoza’s conatus as a form of self-love. Bove explains how the essential dynamic of the Spinozist system arises from the imitation of affects constitutive of social life. Because, for Spinoza, each human being imitates the affects of other human beings...

...-production of reality while resisting any form of decay. The analysis begins with a careful explanation of the imaginary constitution of the world by a subject in love, guided by habit and self-love. It proceeds to examine the transformation of the subject into a strategic participant in the production...

...This chapter discusses concepts of sexuality, marriage and chastity in Islamic discourse. These topics touch on Islamic jurisprudence as well as Islamic culture in general. The implications of chastity as understood in the stories about 'udhri poets and theories of love will be discussed...

... and the Feelings’ (1925) exhorts us to ‘listen in’ to the characters in novels, an approach that this chapter applies in its reading of Women in Love (1920). The vibrations that pulse through Lawrence’s novel are felt at both bodily and universal levels, in ways that chime with musical thinkers...

... a form of preventative violence founded in love. making strange superhero Agamben Giorgio civilisation exception Batman Dark Knight trilogy The sacrifice technology Žižek Slavoj Ip John justice mythology Nichols Michael order sovereign alegality Bainbridge Jason Schmitt Carl...

... undergirds both modern secular sovereignty and the liberal legal subject, by introducing the theme of ‘true love conquers all’, opening up a different consideration of law and sovereignty based on love and relationality, as opposed to legal individualism. The Chapter therefore extends the book’s...

...Through a reading of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and Peter Jackson’s cinematic interpretation of it, this Chapter argues for a love beyond the law—a charity that challenges the aporias of modern liberal and neoliberal legality, and their foundation in a theology...

... the timeless topics of love, anger, grief, and how his world changes following the acceptance of traumatic loss. Through recollections of his lost love over the course of a game he thought he would never play again, Mr. Brill gains a new understanding of a worldview very different from his own. short story...

..., Spinoza uses of the principle of charity (caritas) or the love of one’s neighbor. Neighborly love is used by Spinoza as a polemical tool to distinguish his Epicurean position from the Christian conception of charity. Vardoulakis explains the source of Spinoza’s conception of charity...

... eLALME dot map for spellings of MIGHT indicating loss of fricative This chapter investigates the text The Court of Love (Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.19, folios 217r-234r). It was long time held to be a poem by Chaucer, a notion debunked by Skeat as a neo-medieval fabrication...

... The Seven Bold Ones (1937), City of Youth (1938), and The Love of Mankind (1972). By way of contrast, Bugaeva also considers the work of including Alexei Simonov’s The Ordinary Arctic (1974). Brezhnev Leonid Brief Encounters USSR 1967 Vertical...

...This chapter takes issue with the moralising interpretation of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis that blames an ageing Venus for improper advances to a boy. The poem marks a moment when the role of love was subject to radical historical reassessment. A literary trompe-l'oeil...

... on case studies of ethical and mutual communication, affection, respect and learning between humans and animals, as well as animal suffering. This relation to otherness, which could include love or friendship, involves both an interrogation of man’s confidence in ascribing properties to himself alone...

... in Murdoch through The Flight from the Enchanter. Where Murdoch's love ultimately depends on the unpredictable hazards of the liberal self, Franz Baermann Steiner's ethics are those of the ritual and taboo that were his subjects of study and his grounds for belief. Murdoch Iris Sereny Gitta...

...This chapter examines the implications of the fact that humans are animals for how they think about love and sexual desire. Constance Naden's finest achievement as a comic poet is the series of four poems grouped together under the title ‘Evolutional Erotics’. These four poems both parody and probe...