Between Love And Freedom

Author : Jorge N. Ferrer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538156582

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Love and Freedom by Jorge N. Ferrer Pdf

In Love and Freedom, Jorge Ferrer proposes a paradigm shift in how romantic relationships are conceptualized, a step forward in the evolution of modern relationships. In the same way that the transgender movement surmounted the gender binary, Ferrer defines how a parallel step can—and should—be taken with the relational style binary. This book offers the first systematic discussion of relationship modes beyond monogamy and polyamory, as well as introduces the notion of “relational freedom” as the capability to choose one’s relational style free from biological, psychological, and sociocultural conditionings. To achieve these goals, Ferrer first discusses a number of critical categories—specifically, monopride/polyphobia, and polypride/monophobia—that mediate the contemporary “mono–poly wars,” that is, the predicament of mutual competition among monogamists and polyamorists. The ideological nature of these “mono–poly wars” is demonstrated through a review of available empirical literature on the psychological health and relationship quality of monogamous and polyamorous individuals and couples. Then, after showing how monogamy and polyamory ultimately reinforce each other, Ferrer articulates three relational pathways to living in-between, through, and beyond the mono/poly binary: fluidity, hybridity, and transcendence. Moving beyond that binary opens a fuzzy, liminal, and multivocal relational space that Ferrer calls novogamy. In this groundbreaking book, readers will learn practical tools to not only transform jealousy, but also enhance their relational freedom while being aware of key issues of diversity and social justice. They will also learn novel criteria to evaluate the success of their intimate relationships, and be introduced to a transformed vision of romantic love beyond both monocentrism and emerging polynormativities.

Author : Paul A. Kottman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781503602328

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Love As Human Freedom by Paul A. Kottman Pdf

Rather than see love as a natural form of affection, Love As Human Freedom sees love as a practice that changes over time through which new social realities are brought into being. Love brings about, and helps us to explain, immense social-historical shifts—from the rise of feminism and the emergence of bourgeois family life, to the struggles for abortion rights and birth control and the erosion of a gender-based division of labor. Drawing on Hegel, Paul A. Kottman argues that love generates and explains expanded possibilities for freely lived lives. Through keen interpretations of the best known philosophical and literary depictions of its topic—including Shakespeare, Plato, Nietzsche, Ovid, Flaubert, and Tolstoy—his book treats love as a fundamental way that we humans make sense of temporal change, especially the inevitability of death and the propagation of life.

Author : Joshua Neoh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108427654

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Law, Love and Freedom by Joshua Neoh Pdf

Moving from monasticism to constitutionalism, and from antinomianism to anarchism, this book reveals law's connection with love and freedom.

Author : Thaddeus J. Williams
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789401200585

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Love, Freedom, and Evil by Thaddeus J. Williams Pdf

The defining premise of the Relational Free Will Defense is the claim that authentic love requires free will. Many scholars, including Gregory Boyd and Vincent Brümmer, champion this claim. Best-selling books, such as Rob Bell’s Love Wins, echo that love “cannot be forced, manipulated, or coerced. It always leaves room for the other to decide.” The claim that love requires free will has even found expression in mainstream Hollywood films, including Frailty, Bruce Almighty, and The Adjustment Bureau. The analysis shows convincingly that the claim that authentic love requires free will, does not meet the criteria of consistency, compatibility with Scriptural sources, and the demands of concrete encounter with problems of moral evil.

Author : Jacques Ellul
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442629066

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On Freedom, Love, and Power by Jacques Ellul Pdf

One of the most important and original thinkers of the twentieth century, Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was a noted sociologist, historian, law professor, and self-described "Christian anarchist." At the University of Bordeaux, Ellul taught and wrote extensively on the relationship between technology and contemporary culture, the tenets of the Christian faith, and the principles of human freedom and responsibility. On Freedom, Love, and Power is the transcription of a series of talks given by Ellul in 1974 in which he refines and clarifies some of his most controversial insights on the Jewish and Christian Bibles and their relevance to contemporary society. This expanded edition of Ellul's talks features additional material, previously unavailable, that focuses on Christianity's potential service to humanity as a community that exemplifies a society where people are reconciled with one another and with God.

Author : Osho
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1429979143

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Love, Freedom, and Aloneness by Osho Pdf

Osho, one of the greatest spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century, explores the connections between ourselves and others in Love, Freedom, and Aloneness: The Koan of Relationships. In today’s world, freedom is our basic condition, and until we learn to live with that freedom, and learn to live by ourselves and with ourselves, we are denying ourselves the possibility of finding love and happiness with someone else. Love can only happen through freedom and in conjunction with a deep respect for ourselves and the other. Is it possible to be alone and not lonely? Where are the boundaries that define “lust” versus “love”...and can lust ever grow into love? In Love, Freedom, and Aloneness you will find unique, radical, and intelligent perspectives on these and other essential questions. In our post-ideological world, where old moralities are out of date, we have a golden opportunity to redefine and revitalize the very foundations of our lives. We have the chance to start afresh with ourselves, our relationships to others, and to find fulfillment and success for the individual and for society as a whole. Osho challenges readers to examine and break free of the conditioned belief systems and prejudices that limit their capacity to enjoy life in all its richness. He has been described by the Sunday Times of London as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century” and by Sunday Mid-Day (India) as one of the ten people—along with Gandhi, Nehru, and Buddha—who have changed the destiny of India. Since his death in 1990, the influence of his teachings continues to expand, reaching seekers of all ages in virtually every country of the world.

Author : Mariam Thalos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317394952

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A Social Theory of Freedom by Mariam Thalos Pdf

In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of the metaphysics of constraint and, instead, lays out a political conception of freedom that is closely aligned with questions of social identity, self-development in contexts of intimate relationships, and social solidarity. Thalos argues that whether a person is free (in any context) depends upon a certain relationship of fit between that agent’s conception of themselves (both present and future), on the one hand, and the facts of their circumstances, on the other. Since relationships of fit are broadly logical, freedom is a logic—it is the logic of fit between one’s aspirations and one’s circumstances, what Thalos calls the logic of agency. The logic of agency, once fleshed out, becomes a broadly social and political theory that encompasses one’s self-conceptions as well as how these self-conceptions are generated, together with how they fit with the circumstances of one’s life. The theory of freedom proposed in this volume is fundamentally a political one.

Author : Yevgeny Zamyatin
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9791041807635

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We by Yevgeny Zamyatin Pdf

Author : Alison Mackinnon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521497612

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Love and Freedom by Alison Mackinnon Pdf

In this 1997 book, Alison Mackinnon traces the history of women's challenges to changes in education, employment, reproductive science and law. She shows the connection between the lives of the first generation of women university graduates and the sudden decline in the national birthrate. So dramatic was this shift that it sparked a Royal Commission into its cause. Alison Mackinnon's extensive research shows that the declining birthrate was not simply the result of 'selfish', educated, young women refusing to bear the burdens of motherhood, but was symptomatic of a larger questioning of the role of women in procreation, the role of women in marriage and the institution of marriage itself. Utilising social and government history, autobiography and statistical analysis, this book shows that 'the Marriage Problem' exists as much in the 1990s as it did in the 1890s. Men and women today are still challenging the boundaries between work and home, profession and private life, trying to find a way to have it all.

Author : Sue Moorcroft
Publisher : Choc Lit Limited
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906931568

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Love & Freedom by Sue Moorcroft Pdf

An unlikely connection between two wary lovers becomes something more in this “engaging and compelling romance with undertones of suspense and drama” (Romance Junkies). When a broken heart leaves her life in ruins, American girl Honor Sontag flees to the seaside resort town of Brighton, England. She’s there to take a much-deserved break, and to search for her birth mother who abandoned her as a baby. But she soon finds herself entangled with a mysterious young man whose family seems to have a finger in every pot in town. Martyn Mayfair has sworn off women with any strings attached, but he’s irresistibly drawn to the charming American who keeps popping up in his life. All he wants is a relationship built on honesty, but Honor’s past threatens to undermine their growing romance. When secrets about her mother start to spill out, Honor must make an agonizing choice. Will she live up to her dutiful name and do what others demand? Or will she finally choose freedom for herself?

Author : Christopher Grau,Aaron Smuts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 681 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199395729

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The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love by Christopher Grau,Aaron Smuts Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love offers a wide array of original essays from leading philosophers on the nature and value of love.

Author : Dr Eric Murphy Selinger,Dr William A Gleason
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472431554

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Romance Fiction and American Culture by Dr Eric Murphy Selinger,Dr William A Gleason Pdf

Since the 1970s, romance novels have surpassed all other genres in terms of popularity in the United States, accounting for half of all mass market paperbacks sold and driving the digital publishing revolution. Romance Fiction and American Culture brings together scholars from the humanities, social sciences, and publishing to explore American romance fiction from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century. Essays on interracial, inspirational, and LGBTQ romance attend to the diversity of the genre, while new areas of inquiry are suggested in contextual and interdisciplinary examinations of romance authorship, readership, and publishing history, of pleasure and respectability in African American romance fiction, and of the dynamic tension between the genre and second wave feminism. As it situates romance fiction among other instances of American love culture, from Civil War diaries to Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks, Romance Fiction and American Culture confirms the complexity and enduring importance of this most contested of genres.

Author : Ken Page
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780834829923

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Deeper Dating by Ken Page Pdf

Lose weight. Act confident. Play hard to get. This approach to dating doesn’t lead to love, it leads to insecurity and loneliness. In Deeper Dating, psychotherapist Ken Page offers a new path to finding meaningful and lasting relationships. Learn how to attract people who love you for who you really are, become more self-assured and emotionally available, and lose your taste for relationships that diminish your self-esteem. With exercises, practical tools, and inspiring stories, Deeper Dating will guide you on a journey to find the love—and personal fulfillment—you long for.

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136767906

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Outlaw Culture by bell hooks Pdf

According to the Washington Post, no one who cares about contemporary African-American cultures can ignore bell hooks' electrifying feminist explorations. Targeting cultural icons as diverse as Madonna and Spike Lee, Outlaw Culture presents a collection of essays that pulls no punches. As hooks herself notes, interrogations of popular culture can b

Author : Jiddu Krishnamurti
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-06-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780834824133

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Freedom, Love, and Action by Jiddu Krishnamurti Pdf

In Freedom, Love, and Action, Krishnamurti points to a state of total awareness beyond mental processes. With his characteristic engaging, candid approach, Krishnamurti discusses such topics as the importance of setting the mind free from its own conditioning; the possibility of finding enlightenment in everyday activities; the inseparability of freedom, love, and action; and why it is best to love without attachment.