LoveKnowledge: the life of philosophy from Socrates to Derrida

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What is the love that turns into knowledge and how is the knowledge we seek already a form of love? Reading key texts from Socrates to Derrida, this book addresses the fundamental tension between love and knowledge that informs the history of Western philosophy. LoveKnowledge returns to the long tradition of philosophy as an exercise not only of the mind but also of the soul, asking whether philosophy can shape and inform our lives and communities.;Undoing knowledge: Socrates of the apology -- The logic of desire: Socrates of the symposium -- Under a certain form of eternity: Spinoza's ethics -- Communicating solitude: Rousseau's reveries of the solitary walker -- How we become what we are: Nietzsche's Genealogy of morals -- Becoming other: Foucault's history of sexuality -- Derrida's "here I am." Undoing knowledge: Socrates of the apology -- The logic of desire: Socrates of the symposium -- Under a certain form of eternity: Spinoza's ethics -- Communicating solitude: Rousseau's reveries of the solitary walker -- How we become what we are: Nietzsche's Genealogy of morals -- Becoming other: Foucault's history of sexuality -- Derrida's "here I am."