The Amorous Imagination: Individuating the Other-as-Beloved

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Love, the Imagination, and the Other
Chapter 1 The Philosophy of Love: A New Opening
	The Traditional Typology and the Romantic Turn
	Sympathy, Will, and Imagination in Novalis’s Hymns to the Night
	“Crystallization” as Amorous Imagination in Stendhal’s Love
	Romantic Merging in Shelley’s “On Love”
	Love and the Romantic Imagination: Some Preliminary Observations
	Phenomenology and Empiricism
	Varieties of Phenomenology
		Edmund Husserl’s Eidetic Phenomenology
		Martin Heidegger’s Hermeneutical Phenomenology
		Emmanuel Levinas and the Limits of Phenomenology
		Paul Ricoeur’s Linguistic Phenomenology
		Jean‑Luc Marion’s Reduction to Givenness
	A Romantic Phenomenology?
Chapter 2 The Lovers Emerge: Marion, Saturation, and Individuation
	From the Other to the Beloved
	Levinas and Marion: Ethics, Eros, and the Question of Individuation
	Givenness
	L’adonné
	The Saturated Phenomenon
	Four Categories of Saturated Phenomenon
		The Event and Friendship: Saturation According to Quantity
		The Idol: Saturation According to Quality
		The Flesh: Saturation According to Relation
		The Face: Saturation According to Modality
	Individuation in The Erotic Phenomenon
		The Lover’s Advance and The Crossing of Gazes
		The Crossing of Flesh
		The Adieu
	Marion’s Phenomenology, Individuation, and the Amorous Imagination
Chapter 3 From The Other to This Other: Individuation and Imagination
	Key Features of the Imagination
		The Imagination’s Productive and Reproductive Capacities
		The Imagination’s Hermeneutical Structure
		The Imagination’s Creative‑Responsive Activity
		The Imagination is Embodied
		The Imagination as a Mode of Consciousness
	The Imagination and Individuation: A Preliminary Sketch
	Love and the Endless Hermeneutic
Chapter 4 The Amorous Event and the Endless Hermeneutic
	From the Lover’s Advance to the Beloved’s Givenness
	The Hermeneutical Structure of Events
	The Amorous Event
		The Encounter
		The Call
		The Response
		Distance and Separation
	The Hermeneutical Nature of the Flesh
		Flesh as a Hermeneutical Phenomenon
		Imagining as an Embodied Phenomenon
		Flesh, Imagination, and the Hermeneutical Response
	The Amorous Imagination as the Site of the Endless Hermeneutic
Chapter 5 Toward a Phenomenology of the Amorous Imagination
	A Preliminary Note on Time and Culture
	Amorous Illumination
	Amorous Intention
	Amorous Imaginings
		Romantic Envisioning
		Reading across Distance
		Belief, Presence, and Absence
		Impossibility and Insufficiency
		Castle‑Building
		Hidden Away
		Fidelity, Assurance, and Meaning
		Haunted by Death
	Amorous Individuation
Chapter 6 The Dark Side of Love
	The Dangers of the Amorous Imagination
		Solipsism
		Delusion and Misapprehension
		Idolatry and Narcissism
		Violence
		Death
	The Dissolution and Disillusion of Love
Conclusion: Love’s Univocity and What’s Left Unsaid
	Love’s Univocity?
	Synopsis
	The Hermeneutic Continues
Notes
Bibliography
Index