Helene Cixous and the feminine divine
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Renshaw, Sal
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 8 2009
- Thesaurus
- filosofie, religie, liefde, feministische theologie, feminisme
- Description
- The Subject of Love: Helene Cixous and the Feminine Divine is about generous, other-regarding love. In many respects it is an homage to the very possibility that there might be such a thing, at the same time as it is a meditation on the kinds of subjects for whom it might actually be possible. 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. Very early in Renshaw's reading of Helene Cixous, she glimpsed what she took to be Cixous' fascination with a similar kind of excessive, generous love of the other, a love which Cixous grounded in a uniquely feminine relation to difference but consistently spoke of through the language of the sacred. Renshaw follows in this genealogy the thread that connects the subject of love from 5th century B.C.E. Greece and Plato, to the 20th century protestant theology of agapic love of Anders Nygren, to the late 20th century poetico-philosophy of Helene Cixous.