9780719069604; 9780719069604; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION In the spirit of the gift of love; CHAPTER 1 Speaking of love: philosophy, theology, and French feminism; CHAPTER 2 Feminist theology: for the love of God; CHAPTER 3 H�el�ene Cixous' subject of love; CHAPTER 4 Graceful subjectivities; CHAPTER 5 Divine Promethean love; Conclusion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

*The Subject of Love: H�el�ene Cixous and the Feminine Divine* is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred; often reserved only for God; and rarely thought of as a human achievement. This book is a substantial engagement with her philosophies of love, inviting the reader to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open us to something like a divine love of the other. Renshaw follows this thread in this genealogy of abundant love: the thread that.

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