'It is the saddest night, for I am leaving and not coming back.' Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable, and often pitiless, reflection of their time together he
Romantic Intimacy
✍ Scribed by Yousef, Nancy
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Introduction : ethics, literature, and the forms of encounter -- Feeling for philosophy : the limits of sentimental certainty -- Knowing before loving : Rousseau and the ethics of exposure -- Sentimental justice : Hume, Wordsworth, and the ends of sympathy -- Respecting emotion : Austen's gratitude -- Alone together : romanticism, psychoanalysis, and the interpretation of silence -- Coda : sitting with strangers
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