Dear Earthlings,
"Appetite comes while you eat" says an old Italian proverb, and I am enjoying so much the research I'm doing here at U Conn that another research project came to me. It's on my favorite theme: Love. It's well supported, thanks to generous referees. I want to share it with you, the outline at least.
The Question of Love:
Beliefs, Realities, Practices across
Human Cultures
Proposal for a Fellowship in 2013-14
Presented by Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio, PhD
Abstract
The question of love endures
across human cultures whose belief systems have been organized around prevailing
answers. Cultural interpretations
of what the nature of love might be tend to change as a culture’s epistémé evolves overtime (Foucault,
1990). For example, love has been
understood as a cosmic energy, a force of nature, an art, a virtue, a vice, a
sin, an emotion, a need, an instinct, to name just a few (Anapol 1997,
Cristaudo 2012, de Rougemont 1983, hooks 2001, Passerini 2009). Typically, a given cultural
interpretation of what the nature of love is results in a belief system that
organizes the culture where that interpretation prevails. This study focuses on the history of
the question and its interpretive answers. It revisits specific eras in the light of these answers and
the ensuing belief systems. How
does the prevalence of a given belief about love affect the experience of those
living? Does this belief affect
the ways people practice love in relation to each other and the web of life
that sustains each species? Can a belief
about love lead a culture on a self-destructive path? Is it possible to produce an interpretation of the nature of
love that helps a culture trace a path of sustainable evolution? The study intends to address these and
other questions as they emanate from the central one.
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| Earth as Lover, Cindy Baker |
What do you all think? I hope
I get to do it. Some of it already exists, and perhaps the funds will
materialize to continue. For a tentative outline click here. My desire is to prove that learning how to
love, how to experience this feeling, how to generate the energy that
makes it real, is what we really need at this time in human and
planetary history. I hope you agree and send this project good
energies. Send your comments and questions too. Thank you!
Education is the heart of democracy, education to love. Come back for more wonders.
Namaste,
Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio, PhD
Gilf Gaia Extraordinaire
University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
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