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Abstract
Dr Skye Cleary is a philosopher and author, best known for her work in the field of existentialism. As well as teaching at Columbia, Barnard College and the City College of New York, Skye is also the associate director of the Center for New Narratives in Philosophy at Columbia University.
Skye’s contribution to the world of public philosophy has been extensive, writing for a wealth of publications, including The Paris Review, TED-Ed, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Aeon, Business Insider, The Independent and New Philosopher magazine. Skye is also the editor of the American Philosophical Association blog and the author of our focus for this episode, her 2015 book, Existentialism and Romantic Love.
We’re going to be discussing with Skye the idea of romantic love, and what we can learn about love from existentialist philosophers such as Max Stirner, Soren Kierkegaard, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Friedrich Nietzsche. In a world of romantic cinema, novels, love songs, dating apps, and self-help books, the dream of romantic love has been sold to many of us, but Skye Cleary thinks we need to take a step back. The worry, is that we might blindly sacrifice our freedom, offload our happiness onto another person, or use them as a means to our own ends. Existentialism teaches us that we should aim to live authentically and embrace our freedom. Our question for this episode, is whether or not our current understanding of romantic love is compatible with such a view. Can Jack meet Jill fall in love, and not fall down the hill? Should we, can we, and why, should we love?
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The only context outside of SEP and Deathpigeonx where people who seem to know their shit have taken Stirner seriously is Skye Cleary in her book Existentialism and Romantic Love. Your average man on the street, if convinced that subscribing to egoism as self-government (since the narrower view of egoism as an ought to maximize our own welfare would be another spook to Stirner) doesn't render us murdery and rapey lot, would perhaps be quick to question whether our normal relations of friendship and romantic and familial love could survive under egoism and whether their egoistic replacements. I mean, just think about how people admire Hachikō and not because the dog was in hindsight successful at procuring many tasty treats from strangers.
After reading the book I did saw some appeal in Stirner's views. There are indeed many musts and shoulds about romantic love that our culture conditions in us that are better left unfulfilled; there's a reason why psychotherapists talk about musturbation. But then I also feel like the good parts could be appropriated by some quite a bit less radical view that spares some awkwardness and avoids the connection with the persona of Stirner, since he didn't seem exactly like a great lover based on biography.
A recent book by a friend ....
Existentialism and Romantic Love, Skye Cleary (Amazon).