A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death: The Metaphysics of Desire
Alberto Castelli, "A Love for Nothingness, A Love for Death: The Metaphysics of Desire"
English | ISBN: 981973035X | 2024 | 177 pages | EPUB, PDF | 435 KB + 2 MB
English | ISBN: 981973035X | 2024 | 177 pages | EPUB, PDF | 435 KB + 2 MB
This book aims at explaining romantic love between straight adults through literary texts of the western canon from the nineteenth and twentieth century. Each chapter comes with a multidisciplinary approach in which protagonists are mutilated in their quest for loving as alternative to annihilation.
The book emphasizes love as an obsession, thus as an exploration of the mind. From the passion-myth of Tristan and Isolde to the nihilist modernist representations, the western world has created a perverse concept of love. A love for nothingness, for death. Narcissistic and at times destructive, love is gained by overcoming obstacles. If without obstacles there is no love, then love becomes love for obstacles. Within this masochistic frame, love, falling in love, being loved always stand at the edge of pathology.
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