Our book club has been working through philosophers of love for months and two of us had an affair that ended badly, and now we can't discuss Kristeva or Bataille or anyone who writes about transgression without the whole group feeling the weight of what happened. We all want to keep meeting but nobody knows how to separate the philosophy from the reality of what we've lived.
More people experience this than they realize.
Intellectual exploration of love's complexities becomes impossibly entangled with lived romantic drama within the same community.
“Where Are You with The philosophy of love — from Plato to contemporary?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.