Author Description

Love, Subjectivity, And Truth Engages In A Lively Manner With The Overlapping Areas Of Philosophy And Literature, Philosophy Of Emotions, And Existential Thought. Subjective Truth, A Phrase Used In Proust's Novel In Search Of Lost Time, Is Rich With Existential Connotations. It Invokes Kierkegaard Above All, But Significantly Nietzsche As Well, And Other Philosophers Who Thematize Love, Subjectivity, And Truth. In Search Of Lost Time Is Especially Concerned About What We Know About Others Through Love. Insofar As It Includes The Conveyance And Analysis Of Experience, The Novel Is Capable Not Only Of Exploring Existential Issues But Also Of Doing Something Like Phenomenology. What We Know Is Shaped By Our Way Of Knowing, As The Properties Of Visible, Colored Objects Are Determined By The Wavelengths Of Light Our Eyes Can See. Nowhere Does The Subjective Basis Of Our Awareness Appear So Evident As It Does When We View Things Through Loving Eyes. In Proust's Novel We Find Skeptical Views About Love Expressed Again And Again. However, We Also Note Countercurrents Repeatedly Arising, In Which Love Is Both Said And Shown To Provide A Unique Type Of Insight. At These Times, Love Seems To Be A Prerequisite Of Veridical Apprehension. Love, Subjectivity, And Truth Offers An Investigation Of This Tension As It Is Played Out In Proust's Fiction. Its Central Chapter Into All Of The Reasons Given By His Narrator Marcel For Being Skeptical About What Love Is Able To Reveal, Alongside The Opposed Reasons For Overcoming This Skepticism-- Provided By Publisher.