The Ethics of Love: An Essay on James Joyce
Boysen makes nonetheless the same foundational move as Nagel's: our being sprouts out of our lover's gaze, he claims, because our lover's gaze "contains an infinite and abysmal heterogeneity [yet it] simultaneously contains an inscrutable and inexhaustible source that gives us be...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | The Comparatist 2014, Vol.38, p.329-339 |
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| Format: | Review |
| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Boysen makes nonetheless the same foundational move as Nagel's: our being sprouts out of our lover's gaze, he claims, because our lover's gaze "contains an infinite and abysmal heterogeneity [yet it] simultaneously contains an inscrutable and inexhaustible source that gives us being perpetually" (11) Contrary to Sartre's gaze of shame, the lover's gaze which Boysen talks about satisfies Nagel's requirement that it should be experienceable even by an infant in the arms of the mother. [...]I must give love as a mutual precondition of my own and my lover's existential instantiation. |
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| ISSN: | 0195-7678 1559-0887 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/com.2014.0025 |