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APhilosophyofAfectiveAlterity:Love,Faith,andDemocracy
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Tisreading,Ibelieve,wouldbewithinthespiritofMariaJanion,Julia
Kristeva,MarthaC.NussbaumandHaroldBloom.Forme,theparadoxes
andwondersofartleadintophilosophicalthinking,whileopeningatthe
sametimeawayforahealingpraxis.
APhilosophyofAfectiveAlterity:Love,Faith,andDemocracy
Myideasherecontributetoapost-secularandanti-fundamentalistphilosophy
ofalectivealterity.Teyattempttoreconstructthephilosophicaltradition
ofalectivealterityandfromittoconstructatheory.Iexploredynamic
religionsintheiropennesstotheOther.EmphasisislaidonJudaismand
theHLovethestranger”postulateintheHebrewBible.Igobacktobiblical
andrabbinicalliteratureaswellastopsychoanalyticinterpretationsofthese
byErichFrommandJuliaKristeva.Troughoutthesection,Iproposemy
understandingoflove,whichalsoembracesqueerness.
Howisaphilosophyofothersubjectivitypossible?Letusendeavourto
reconstructthephilosophicaltraditionofalectivealterityandtoconstruct
atheoryofit.HomosexualityisalectivealteritybetweenTouandI.In
otherwords,homosexualityislove.Loveconnectsintra-andintersubjectivity.
HInthebeginningwaslove,”asJuliaKristevarecapitulatedthetradition.Sap-
phoexpressedthemovementsofsubjectivity-in-love;inhisSymposiumPlato
returnedtothebittersweetErosofSappho.TeHebrewBibledepictedthe
feelingsbetweenDavidandJonathan;intheMishnahDavidandJonathan
epitomizelastinglove.Tewordfortheirlove(‘ahav)isalsotherootforlove
intheSongofSolomon.93
Explicitly,thoughtabouthomosexualitywasproducedbyphilosophers:
Plato,DenisDiderot,JeremyBentham,SigmundFreud,Jean-PaulSartre,
MichelFoucault,PierreBourdieu,JuliaKristeva,MarthaC.Nussbaum,
KwameAnthonyAppiah,DidierEribon,andSimonBlackburn.Butthe
traditionisevenricherandincludesthehomo-orbisexualityintheworksof
Erasmus,MicheldeMontaigne,ChristinaofSweden,HrihoriySkovoroda,
FriedrichNietzsche,GeorgeSantayana,LudwigWittgenstein,PavelFlor-
93
JohnBoswell,Christianity,SocialTolerance,andHomosexuality:GayPeopleinWesternEurope
fromtheBeginningoftheChristianEratotheFourteenthCentury(Chicago:TeUniversityof
ChicagoPress,1980),136.