What Is Love? The Ethical Subject from Eros, Philia, to Relation as Love
Resource
中外文學, 40(2), 055-102
Journal
中外文學
Journal Volume
40
Journal Issue
2
Pages
055-102
Date Issued
2011-06
Date
2011-06
Author(s)
Chih, W.Y.J.
Abstract
This article broaches various accounts of love and ethical subjects so as to examine the ethical texture of love and to extend the scope of ethics and ethical subject to include love relationships. The argument divides into five sections: first, I stipulate the definition of “ethical subject in love,” and clarify the meaning of “ethics” and “ethical subject” used in the present discussion. Next, in the following three sections, I remap the discursive encounters of Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, and Martin Heidegger with love, examining different types of love, such as eros-love and philia-love, the implied ethics of these loves, and the question of “aimance,” to provide evidence for my thesis on relation as love and its ethical subjectivity. In conclusion, I draw upon Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway to illustrate how to apply the proposition of ethical subject in relation as love and thereby enrich one’s reading of the literary text.
Subjects
愛的倫理主體，愛的隱喻，情慾之愛，友愛之愛，愛發生，海德格，關係即愛，《達洛威夫人》
the ethical subject in love, the metaphor of love, eros, philia, aimance, Heidegger, relation as love, Mrs Dalloway
Type
journal article