From Metaphysical Desire to the Desire of Being Desired: An Introduction to Aurel Codoban’s Hermeneutics of Love
From Metaphysical Desire to the Desire of Being Desired: An Introduction to Aurel Codoban’s Hermeneutics of Love

Summary/Abstract: Aurel Codoban proposes a philosophy of love in which love as a significant surface reveals a world of practices, representations, rituals and the assumption of love content that are under the sign of an occidental Eros evolution towards the desire of being desired. The metamorphoses of love are described through classical theories of desire, which reveal a paradigmatic behavior from the classical age to the postmodern condition of love. Relevant in this sense is the dynamics of the relationship between metaphysical love, life and death; the transformations that take place in the field of desire from love conceived in a manner similar to the religious one, fuelled by metaphysical desire, to love as passion, to the establishment of a love based on corporeality, to the plurality of the self and the emptying of love relations of personal identity of those who engage in the discourse of love and in its communication. With the generalization of the construction of reality in postmodern communication, love is increasingly proving to be rebuilt on an empty transcendence, a transcendence without transcendence, which accompanies the virtualization of love and the transformations brought about by its association with the virtual space mediated by the new technologies.

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