Chiodo scaccia chiodi!. Gleanings from South Asian Intellectual Traditions on Love and/or Desire (Kāma) as an Antidote to Desires.

  • Gianni Pellegrini University of Turin
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/6776

Abstract

Love, desire, and the desire for love (kāma) are probably the most powerful of all forces. They dismay and disarm human beings while also filling them with limitlessness. Human beings as such are constitutively desirous, since they are constantly pregnant with one or more desires. In the South Asian Brahmanical world, this simple assimilation opens up to a series of treatises on the relationship between desire and desiring and/or love and lover. This essay investigates some prevailing Indian conceptions on love/desire, outlining a path that leads to the revision of some commonplaces, to arrive finally - through a textual path - to the sublimation of the very ideas of love and desire.

Author Biography

Gianni Pellegrini, University of Turin

Associate Professor of Indian Philosophies and Religion, and Sanskrit Language and Literature at the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin. His areas of research are: the early-modern Advaita Vedānta, the logic-epistemology of Navya Nyāya, the Yoga commentarial tradition, the contemporary situation of Indian schools of thought.

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Published
2022-03-15
How to Cite
Pellegrini, G. (2022). Chiodo scaccia chiodi!. Gleanings from South Asian Intellectual Traditions on Love and/or Desire (Kāma) as an Antidote to Desires. Philosophy Kitchen - Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, (16), 183-205. https://doi.org/10.13135/2385-1945/6776
Issue
No. 16 (2022): Meditations on Love
Section
IV. Ways of Meaning