Friday, August 07, 2009

Ágnes Heller´s fragment on Love

From "Everyday Life", Part II (The everyday and the non-everyday)

...When I say "I love you" to someone, my emotion becomes external to me, it is set to work in someone else´s individuality, and may transform its future course (whether my love is accepted or not) and at the same time it transforms my own individuality. A specific love (with specific emotional and moral content, with specific attitudes and behaviour) is related to an objectivized world-order, to the erotic conventions of the age, its emotional expectations, and so on....

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