Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life - Tapa blanda

Rose, Gillian

 
9781590173657: Love's Work: A Reckoning With Life
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ISBN 10: 1590173651 ISBN 13: 9781590173657
Editorial: NYRB Classics, 2011

Sinopsis

Love’s Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love, love that becomes real and lasting through an ongoing reckoning with its own limitations. Rose looks back on her childhood, the complications of her parents’ divorce and her dyslexia, and her deep and divided feelings about what it means to be Jewish. She tells the stories of several friends also laboring under the sentence of death. From the sometimes conflicting vantage points of her own and her friends’ tales, she seeks to work out (seeks, because the work can never be complete—to be alive means to be incomplete) a distinctive outlook on life, one that will do justice to our yearning both for autonomy and for connection to others. With droll self-knowledge (“I am highly qualified in unhappy love affairs,” Rose writes, “My earliest unhappy love affair was with Roy Rogers”) and with unsettling wisdom (“To live, to love, is to be failed”), Rose has written a beautiful, tender, tough, and intricately wrought survival kit packed with necessary but unanswerable questions.

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Gillian Rose (1947–1995), who is now recognized as one of the most important and influential critical thinkers of her time, was a British philosopher and writer. For many years she taught at Sussex University, drawing large numbers of research students, before she accepted a chair in social and political thought at Warwick University. Her major works, which ranged from Continental philosophy to Judaism, include The Melancholy Science, Hegel Contra Sociology, Dialectic of Nihilism, The Broken Middle: Out of Our Ancient Society, Judaism and Modernity, Mourning Becomes the Law, and Paradiso. 


Michael Wood teaches at Princeton and is the author, most recently, of Yeats and Violence.

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NYRB Classics
Año de publicación
2011
Idioma
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ISBN 10 
1590173651
ISBN 13 
9781590173657
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Número de páginas
176
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9780241645499: Love's Work: Gillian Rose (Penguin Modern Classics)

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ISBN 10:  0241645492 ISBN 13:  9780241645499
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