[BOOK][B] The empire of love: Toward a theory of intimacy, genealogy, and carnality
EA Povinelli - 2020 - degruyter.com
EA Povinelli
2020•degruyter.com“Elizabeth A. Povinelli's Empire of Love is a stunning achievement, tracking the intricate
connections between forms of liberal governance and forms of love in the contemporary
world. Povinelli renounces any temptation to take the highway of thought and instead takes
the reader on a journey in which worlds known and less-known are slowly and patiently
explored and shared. This is a book that touches the soul.”—Veena Das, Krieger-
Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University“What a brilliant book …
connections between forms of liberal governance and forms of love in the contemporary
world. Povinelli renounces any temptation to take the highway of thought and instead takes
the reader on a journey in which worlds known and less-known are slowly and patiently
explored and shared. This is a book that touches the soul.”—Veena Das, Krieger-
Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University“What a brilliant book …
“Elizabeth A. Povinelli’s Empire of Love is a stunning achievement, tracking the intricate connections between forms of liberal governance and forms of love in the contemporary world. Povinelli renounces any temptation to take the highway of thought and instead takes the reader on a journey in which worlds known and less-known are slowly and patiently explored and shared. This is a book that touches the soul.”—Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
“What a brilliant book. Elizabeth A. Povinelli strives to make all the intellectual moves that need to be made today: connecting studies of sexuality to other phenomena that seem to be unrelated, thus opening out what gets to count as ‘sexuality’; thinking about sexuality in relation to liberal governance; and moving us beyond the binary opposition of freedom versus constraint. These arguments are refreshing as well as pressing for our times.”—Lisa Rofel, author of Desiring China
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