Taking Place of Love: Borderlines of Subjectivity
Taking Place of Love: Borderlines of Subjectivity

Author(s): Jelisaveta Blagojević
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Social Philosophy
Published by: Centar za ženske studije & Centar za studije roda i politike, Fakultet političkih nauka, Beograd
Summary/Abstract: ONE PRESUPPOSITION OF THIS PAPER IS THE NECESSITY TO RETHINK LOVE AS A THEORETICAL AND A POLITICAL CONCEPT. THIS MEANS, ON THE ONE HAND TO RETHINK HOW LOVE CONSTRUCTS ITSELF, HOW IT “IS,” AND ON THE OTHER HAND, HOW IT IS CONSTRUCTED WITHIN THE SAME GESTURE IN WHICH WESTERN, SELF-POSSESSIVE, SELF-REFLEXIVE, AND SELF-AFFECTIVE SUBJECTIVITY HAS CONSTRUCTED ITSELF. THE PRINCIPLE ACCORDING TO WHICH LOVE IS NECESSARILY RELATED TO POLITICS AND REASON, WHICH ALSO SEEMS INSEPARABLE FROM OUR CONCEPTIONS OF LAW AND KNOWLEDGE, FAILS TO AVOID THE VERY PARADOX OF LOVE: HOW CAN WE APPROPRIATE THE OTHER AND MAINTAIN THE OTHERNESS OF THE OTHER AT THE SAME TIME?

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