Mad Love: Surrealism and Soteriological Desire
This article proposes that a paradox of love is situated at the heart of the Surrealist project: love is characterised as both a problem and its solution, tied to a series of antinomies (absence/presence, subject/object, chance/necessity, singularity/variance, history/eternity) and the teleological...
| Published in: | Literature and theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2020]
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Literature and theology
Year: 2020, Volume: 34, Issue: 3, Pages: 363-385 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture NBK Soteriology NCB Personal ethics VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | This article proposes that a paradox of love is situated at the heart of the Surrealist project: love is characterised as both a problem and its solution, tied to a series of antinomies (absence/presence, subject/object, chance/necessity, singularity/variance, history/eternity) and the teleological horizon of their reconciliation. The sufferings attributed to love prompt a desire to overcome them that is characterised as an orientation toward salvation. With a specific focus on André Breton’s L’Amour fou (1937), love’s madness is read in relation to a posit of faith. Breton’s appropriation of Hegel is interpreted as a precise reformulation that enables soteriological desire to find a response in (i.) a Surrealist ontology that is both immanent and monist, and (ii.) a theodicy of love. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/fraa011 |