Love Troubles

Estelle Ferrarese, author of The Fragility of Concern for Others: Adorno and the Ethics of Care:
Gregoratto's fascinating reflection on erotic love not only gives a detailed account of our contemporary experiences and distress in love, it also brilliantly shows that in this feeling lie, despite everything, powerful critical resources against our capitalist form of life. A much-needed book in our difficult times.

Penelope Deutscher, author of Foucault’s Futures: A Critique of Reproductive Reason:
Critical theory has diagnosed love’s expression of individual and social pathologies. Now Gregoratto challenges it to clarify whether love’s trouble is worth the trouble? Through her question, "when is love unfree?", she shows how freedom coalesces, non-instrumentally, through multiple forms of socially transformative love: from sexual love through inchoate friendship to fraught political activism.

J. M. Bernstein, The New School for Social Research:
We love love. And fear love, despise it, and need it more and more. The ambiguities and ambivalences of erotic love are the spur and substance of Federica Gregoratto’s luminous and absorbing work. Love, she argues, is the exemplary social bond stretching from intimate erotic encounters, enveloping friendships, and political solidarity. Love Troubles is also the most readable philosophical book I have encountered in living memory.