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Love as a Hollow: Merleau‐Ponty's Promise of Queer Love
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 January 2020
Abstract
This article argues that Maurice Merleau‐Ponty advances a queer notion of love. In particular, I argue that his notion of love as an institution, as a hollow fueled by the imaginary dimension of existence, shows that love unhinges petrified ideals of gender. I suggest that the crucial insight to be found in Merleau‐Ponty's account of love is that love is a lived openness that invites us to seek out new ways of being.
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- Hypatia , Volume 32 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminist Love Studies, Winter 2017 , Winter 2017 , pp. 54 - 68
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- Copyright © 2017 by Hypatia, Inc.
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