The current revival of interest in ethics in literary criticism
coincides fortuitously with a revival of interest in love in
philosophy. The literary return to ethics also coincides with a
spate of neuroscientific discoveries about cognition and emotion.
But without a philosophical grounding this new work cannot speak
convincingly about literature's relationship to our ethical lives.
Jean-Luc Marion's articulation of a phenomenology of love provides
this philosophical grounding. The Phenomenology of Love and Reading
accepts Jean-Luc Marion's argument that love matters for who we are
more than anything-more than cognition and more than being itself.
Cassandra Falke shows how reading can strengthen our capacity to
love by giving us practice in loves habits-attention, empathy, and
a willingness to be overwhelmed. Confounding our expectations,
literature equips us for the confounding events of love, which,
Falke suggests, are not rare and fleeting, but rather constitute
the most meaningful and durable part of our everyday life.
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