Richard Gilman-Opalsky is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Springfield. Gilman-Opalsky's research focuses on the history of political philosophy, contemporary social theory, Marxism, capitalism, autonomist politics, critical theory, revolt and revolution. He is the author of five books: Specters of Revolt, Precarious Communism, Spectacular Capitalism, Unbounded Publics, and Riotous Epistemology, and co-editor of Against Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Gilman-Opalsky has lectured widely throughout the U.S., Europe, and China and was named University Scholar 2018-2019 at the University of Illinois.
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: THE LOGIC OF LOVE AS A COMMUNIST POWER
1.1 Basic Theorization: Simone Weil and Emmanuel Levinas
1.2 Gemeinwesen as Communist Logic
CHAPTER 2: PLATO'S SYMPOSIUM AND THE MANY POWERS OF LOVE
2.1 Too Many Aphrodites
2.2 From Socrates to Spartacus: Love in War and Revolt
CHAPTER 3: THE LOVE OF COMMUNISTS
3.1 Capitalist Disfiguration: Grundrisse and the Community of Alienation
3.2 Jenny, Rosa, and the Significance of Revolutionary Affection
3.3 Kollontai's Communist Theory of Love
CHAPTER 4: LOVE AS PRAXIS: CRITICAL THEORY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
4.1 Insanity: après moi, le déluge
4.2 Danger and Hope of Despair
CHAPTER 5: LOVE AND WHITE SUPREMACIST CAPITALIST PATRIARCHY
5.1 Unlike Loves: Racialization and Consumption
5.2 Marginalities of Unwantedness and Madness
CHAPTER 6: LIQUID AND CHAOS
6.1 Chaotic Liquidity of Love
6.2 Precarious Communes
CHAPTER 7: UNALIENATION
7.1 Movements of Love
7.2 Insurgent Love
CHAPTER 8: CONCLUSION: FOR AND AGAINST
8.1 Love Against / Against Love
8.2 Love For / For Love
INDEX
