ABSTRACT

Notions of love intersect with ideas on personal liberty, obligation, individuality, self, and difference in this study. James Martel contends that theorists' inattention to the subject has impoverished our explorations of political discourse.

chapter |29 pages

Introduction

The Problem of Love

chapter |38 pages

Locke's Reasonable Subject

chapter |39 pages

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The Transparency of Patriarchy

chapter |38 pages

Henry David Thoreau

Deeper into the Woods

chapter |33 pages

Thomas Hobbes

The Road Not Taken 1