Participatory Love: Exploring Non-Oppressive Relationality Through Plato, Hegel and Irigaray
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2019-08-12
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In this thesis, I examine the question of non-oppressive relationality in the context of love. In taking this question up, I look to the work of Plato, Irigaray and Hegel, who each identify a problem of oppression and respond to it through a model of non-oppression as participation, sharedness and unity, respectively. Through an exploration of each thinker’s model of non-oppression, I show that we gain two central insights: i) a new way of thinking about the self, which brings new ways of relating to others into being, and ii) the conditions required to bring this self, and non-oppressive relations with others, into being. Motivated by a concern for how we can be ourselves with another in love, I then consider the limitations of each model in relation to this concern.
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Non-Oppression, Relationality, Selfhood, Participation, Desire, Love
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Kunimoto, E. M. L. (2019). Participatory Love: Exploring Non-Oppressive Relationality Through Plato, Hegel and Irigaray (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.