Love, Subjectivity, and Truth

Love, Subjectivity, and Truth interprets Marcel Proust's masterpiece as an inquiry into love and the meaning of life, especially the question of whether love can be trusted or ought to be transcended. Drawing upon both the existential tradition and the ancient arguments for skepticism, it displays and evaluates what In Search of Lost Time can show us about how to navigate our emotional lives.

Rick Anthony Furtak is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colorado College. His work is focused on the moral psychology of the emotions, the relations between philosophy and literature, and the unique spirit of existential thought. He is past President of the SÃ-ren Kierkegaard Society. His translations from Rainer Maria Rilke and a book of his own poems are among his most recent publications.

Preface
1. Love and the Meaning of Life
2. On Possibility and Significance
3. Skepticism and Perspective: The Elusiveness of Truth
4. On Loving Badly and Discovering Truth Nonetheless
5. "Reality as We Have Felt It to Be"
Index