Love, as the most incomprehensible and immeasurable phenomenon of humanity, has existed as a question of philosophical and political considerations since pre-Socratic times until today. Many revolutionary movements and revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries recognized the importance of love, which is closely related to freedom of individuals. The liberation of love should thus be the fundamental project of every liberation movement. In the process of my writing, I am thinking about different views and understandings of love. I try to abandon the positivist paradigm as the historically most approved scientific approach oriented toward evaluation and categorization for the purposes of standardizing and regulating our human relationships and as an alternative I present stories as an aspect of knowledge formation. I am think about the conception of love from ancient to postmodernist philosophers. I place love in the context of late-capitalism and think about (self)alienation, narcissism and the abandonment of love. I think about the ethics of love, about its connection to politics. I place it in the context of anarchism and revolutionary action, and I consider its subversive potential. In the final part, I present alternative approaches to love relationships that go beyond the mono-hetero-normative framework of the institution of the couple.
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