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Reading Erich Fromm's The Art of Loving, or Why Loving Means Giving Nothing.

The concept of love has been receiving sustained critical attention in recent critical discourse. While there was once reluctance to consider love an object of serious scholarly inquiry, contemporary philosophers and theorists have turned to love in theorizing issues of overlapping philosophical, et...

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Published in:KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy Vol. 9; no. 2; pp. 143 - 161
Main Author: De Chavez, Jeremy
Format: Article
Published: KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy Dec2015
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Fromm, Erich, 1900-1980
Love
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
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