Avec Fanny Söderbäck, Département de philosophie, Siena College.
Cette conférence est présentée par le Département de philosophie de l'Université de Montréal.
Veuillez noter que la conférence sera prononcée en anglais.
Résumé : How can I say I love you without reducing you to an object? How love in a way that respects and cultivates the difference between us? Drawing from the work of Plato and Irigaray, I examine whether love can be used as a model for an ethics where each individual can cultivate his or her own subjectivity. If philosophy since Plato has been understood as a love of wisdom, Irigaray has stressed the need to view it instead as a wisdom of love. Following Irigaray in this regard, I argue that philosophy all too often has been grafted on a model of love that takes the erotic to be a one-way movement between lover and beloved (subject-object relation), and I try instead to examine love as a movement that unfolds between two lovers, two subjects, irreducible to one another. In so doing, I hope to raise questions about the nature of both philosophy, love, and ethical relations.
