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*The Subject of Love: Hélène Cixous and the Feminine Divine* is about abundant, generous, other-regarding love. In the history of Western ideas of love, such a configuration has been inseparable from our ideas about divinity and the sacred; often reserved only for God; and rarely thought of as a human achievement. This book is a substantial engagement with her philosophies of love, inviting the reader to reflect on the conditions of subjectivity that just might open us to something like a divine love of the other. Renshaw follows this thread in this genealogy of abundant love: the thread that

Feminism in literature. --- Love in literature. --- Feminist theory in literature --- Cixous, Helene, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cixous, Hélène, --- Cixous, Hélène --- Anders Nygren. --- Hélène Cixous. --- Plato. --- agapic love. --- conditions of subjectivity. --- divinity. --- philosophies of love. --- poetico-philosophy. --- protestant theology. --- sacred.