EROS AND AGAPE

World Philosophy - Winter 2019-20

Mandel Cabrera

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Author & title Pages

(1) Plato: Symposium pp.2-47

(2) Excerpts from the Bible (Mark, Luke, and I
pp.48-9
Corinthians).
(3) Anders Nygren: “Agape and Eros” pp.50-7
(4) Rainer Maria Rilke: Duino Elegies (selections) p.58
(5) William Gass: “Throw the Emptiness out of Your
pp.59-67
Arms: Rilke’s Doctrine of Nonpossessive Love”
(6) Robert C. Solomon: “The Virtue of (Erotic) Love” pp.68-81
(7) Baruch Spinoza: Ethics III & IV (selections) pp.82-93
(8) Amelie Rorty: “Spinoza on the Pathos of Idolatrous
pp.94-103
Love and the Hilarity of True Love”
(9) Baruch Spinoza: Ethics (selections from part V) pp.104-9
(10) Steven Nadler: Spinoza’s Ethics: an Introduction
pp.110-16
(selections)
(11) Friedrich Nietzsche: The Gay Science (selections) pp.117-18
(12) Friedrich Nietzsche: Ecce Homo (selections) pp.119-21
(13) Friedrich Nietzsche: “Notes on the Eternal
pp.121-28
Recurrence”
(14) Beatrice Han-Pile: “Nietzsche and Amor Fati” pp.129-69
(15) Immanuel Levinas: “Phenomenology of Eros” (from
pp.170-76
Totality and Infinity)
(16) Alphonso Lingis: “Phenomenology of the Face and
Carnal Intimacy” (from Libido: The French pp.177-85
Existential Theories)
(17) Han Byung-Chul: The Agony of Eros pp.186-217
(18) David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest (selections) pp.218-320