TY - CHAP
T1 - The Happiness of Promise
T2 - Ferdinand Hodler and Alexander Nehamas on Love and Care
AU - Bialek, Fannie
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Alexander Nehamas’s work on beauty offers a possible framework for understanding a lover’s relationship to the value of the beloved, defined by the want to spend more time with the beloved and a “promise of happiness” in that prospect. The indeterminacy of the time to come strikes the lover as promising, in this arrangement. But relationships are often determined in many less delightful ways, and might be structured by the transformation of the “promising” into promises to care through a deeply unhappy future. This essay considers the relationship between love and care in these ways through the development of an account of love from Nehamas’s work on beauty in dialogue with a series of portraits painted by Swiss symbolist Ferdinand Hodler of his lover as she was dying.
AB - Alexander Nehamas’s work on beauty offers a possible framework for understanding a lover’s relationship to the value of the beloved, defined by the want to spend more time with the beloved and a “promise of happiness” in that prospect. The indeterminacy of the time to come strikes the lover as promising, in this arrangement. But relationships are often determined in many less delightful ways, and might be structured by the transformation of the “promising” into promises to care through a deeply unhappy future. This essay considers the relationship between love and care in these ways through the development of an account of love from Nehamas’s work on beauty in dialogue with a series of portraits painted by Swiss symbolist Ferdinand Hodler of his lover as she was dying.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85135045997
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-95062-0_16
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-95062-0_16
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85135045997
T3 - Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
SP - 235
EP - 252
BT - Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
PB - Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
ER -