What is love? Aside from being the title of many a popular love song, this is one of life's perennial questions. In What Love Is , philosopher Carrie Jenkins offers a bold new theory on the nature of romantic love that reconciles its humanistic and scientific components. Love can be a social construct (the idea of a perfect fairy tale romance) and a physical manifestation (those anxiety- inducing heart palpitations) we must recognize its complexities and decide for ourselves how to love.
Motivated by her own polyamorous relationships, she examines the ways in which our parameters of love have recently changed,to be more accepting of , interracial, and non-monogamous relationships,and how they will continue to evolve in the future. Full of anecdotal, cultural, and scientific reflections on love, What Love Is is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand what it means to say I love you." Whether young or old, gay or straight, male or female, polyamorous or monogamous, this book will help each of us decide for ourselves how we choose to love.
作者简介
Carrie S. I. Jenkins是温哥华不列颠哥伦比亚大学的哲学教授,也是加拿大全国性的研究主席。詹金斯在剑桥大学三一学院获得学士、硕士和博士学位,在那里她阅读由伯特兰-罗素、路德维希-维特根斯坦和G.E.摩尔塑造的分析传统的哲学。她曾在圣安德鲁斯大学、澳大利亚国立大学和密歇根大学担任学术职务。她的推特是@Carriejenkins。
Carrie S. I. Jenkins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and a nationally elected Canada Research Chair. Jenkins received her BA, MPhil and PhD degrees from Trinity College, Cambridge, where she read philosophy in the analytic tradition shaped by Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and G.E. Moore. She previously held academic posts at the University of St Andrews, the Australian National University, and the University of Michigan. She tweets @carriejenkins.
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