ABSTRACT
Gaitanidis reflects on love as a sublime event, creating bonds with people that life gives and takes away without one’s choosing, often forcing one to face loss, helplessness and mortality. Rather than making sense of it by ‘learning how to die’ as a lover of truth (i.e. a philosopher), or by surrendering oneself to ‘addictive’ love as a true lover (i.e. poet), Gaitanidis argues that it is essential for truth to meet love (in the figure of the poet-philosopher) so as to be able to acquire wisdom through desire and come to terms with pain and pleasure, loss and happiness.
