Love and Politics

<p>In <i>Love and Politics</i> Jeffery L. Nicholas argues that Eros is the final rejection of an alienated life in which humans are prevented from developing their human powers; Eros in contrast is an overflowing of acting into new realities and new beauties a world in which human beings extend their powers and senses.</p><p>Nicholas uniquely interprets Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism as a response to alienation defined as the divorce of fact from value. However this account cannot address alienation in the form of the oppression of women or people of color. Importantly it fails to acknowledge the domination of nature that blackens the heart of alienated life. Alienation must be seen as a separation of the human from nature. Nicholas turns to Aristotle first to uncover the way his philosophy embodies a divorce of human from nature then to reconstruct the essential elements of Aristotle’s metaphysics to defend a philosophical anthropology based on Eros. </p><p>Love and Politics: Persistent Human Desires as a Foundation for Liberation presents a critical theory that synthesizes MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism Frankfurt School Critical Theory and Social Reproduction Theory. It will be of great interest to political theorists and philosophers.</p>