‘There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy’: an extract from Gillian Rose’s ‘Love’s Work’ | London Review Bookshop
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‘There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy’: an extract from Gillian Rose’s ‘Love’s Work’ | London Review Bookshop
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Reading Gillian Rose
I keep thinking about this Gillian Rose line from Love’s Work: “There is no democracy in any love relation: only mercy. To be at someone's mercy is dialectical damage: they may be merciful and they may be merciless.” Love necessarily involves exposure and damage. But another word for damage might be change, or expansion. Falling in love with
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