A meditative reconsideration of what it means to love as ever-changing beings in an ever-changing world.We live in time, and so we love in time. Our beloveds change, and we change beside them. Sometimes we change apart, but it is this very changeableness, the braving of an unknown future together, that endears us to our lovers. Far from an ideal of constancy and commitment, then, love is an endeavor fraught with uncertainty.
In this book, Fannie Bialek sketches a view of love that does not ignore the vagaries of life but embraces them. In contrast to philosophical and religious attempts to secure love against finitude, Bialek’s love embraces its susceptibility to change and accepts the ethical challenges such change introduces. Attentive to our deepest vulnerabilities, Bialek develops a fresh ethics of love grounded by our humility before time.
Fannie Bialekis assistant professor of religion and politics at Washington University in St. Louis.Preface
1. Wanting Without Knowing
2. Accounting for Love
3. Christian Agape and the Vulnerability of Worldly Goods
4. Promises and Obligations: On Loving the Dying
Afterword: Ethics Without an Ending
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
“In a meditation at once philosophical and enmeshed in the world, Bialek shows us how we love in time, both desirous of and fearful for the future. Her patient and lucid prose urges us to discard neither the desire nor the fear but to bear with them both as an essential part of being human. In Bialek’s hands, love comes to seem the only question.”
“Time places us inescapably within beginnings and endings. Love, once it begins, wants not to end. Yet somewhere between loving and losing, there is lingering. In a series of artful essays, Bialek invites us to linger with our loves, offering life lessons through the close contemplation of desire.Love in Tlƒ¼
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