Human Rights at the United Nations: In a Tension Between Universality and Ambivalence by Marguerite A. Peeters

“…The way forward may be to complete the past anthropological underpinnings of universal human rights with the development of an ontology of love.  …”
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La dignità umana e la ricerca del suo fondamento. Considerazioni a margine dall’Enciclica “Fratelli tutti” by Agnese Varsalona

“…Therefore, there emerges the need to revisit the concept of absoluteness in the light of the God of Jesus, who is a relationship of love, unity in the diversity of the three persons.       …”
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Honeymoon Tourism as Romantic Consumption in China by Weiqi Yan, Junmin Liu, Yujie Zhu

“…As an active embrace of modern consumerism, these cultural products symbolise a collective impetus to seize and monumentalise love relationships through the ‘tourism moment’. …”
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L’écriture de l’impuissance dans Die Liebesblödigkeit de Wilhelm Genazino by Anne-Sophie Hillard

“…Wilhelm Genazino’s novel Die Liebesblödigkeit (2005) depicts the inner journey of the narrator and protagonist torn by his love for two women and his inability to choose between one of them. …”
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Women in Obasá’s Poetry by Ayoola Oladunnke Aransi, Hakeem Olawale

“…Most of his works, as described by previous scholars, are based on his love for and interest in Yorùbá language, social values, language, style, cultural practices, and the recovery endangered Yoruba oral art (Babalolá 1971, ̣ 1973; Olábimtán 1974a, 1974b; Ògúnsínà 1980; O ̣ látúnji 1982; Akínye ̣ mí 1987, ̣ 1991, 2017; and Nnodim 2006). …”
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Mythe et colonies dans l’Allemagne de Weimar by Catherine Repussard

“…All attempts at emancipation, including the young pearl diver Matahi’s forbidden love for the beautiful girl, come up against the immutable taboo dictated by the priest Hitu, who represents Tradition (and murders Matahi), and are doomed to end in death. …”
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Writing Out of Place: Wordsworth and Woolf in London by Laurent Folliot, Juliana Lopoukhine

“…The present article endeavours to shed light on some unlikely yet deep-seated affinities between William Wordsworth and Virginia Woolf, in particular on their common love of roaming. Although Wordsworth’s country rambles have often been associated with the kind of patriarchal culture epitomised by Woolf’s father Leslie Stephen (who even penned an essay entitled “In Praise of Walking”), the London perambulations recounted in Book VII of The Prelude present suggestive analogies, as well as contrasts, with Woolf’s Modernist city heuristics. …”
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‘Bright Cynthia comes to hunt and revel here’ : constellations mythologiques et cynégétiques dans Titus Andronicus et Thomas of Woodstock by Agnès Lafont

“…An analysis of the proper / improper reinterpretations of this classical myth within the performance text of these two tragedies allows us to draw a new portrait of the once virtuous and amiable deity that presided over amorous love sonnet sequences of the period – Delia by Samuel Daniel (1592) and Diana by Henry Constable (1594).…”
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Defensa de Fray Servando Teresa de Mier, actor de la Independencia mexicana by Marie-Cécile Bénassy-Berling

“…The character’s key is his love for liberty. He knows the philosophers very well, yet he’s an authentic catholic as far as faith and cult are concerned. …”
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Logosowy charakter wiary według Josepha Ratzingera – Benedykta XVI by Krzysztof Góźdź

“…He can see faith as the highest level of existence of the mind, reason, will, love and man self-fulfilment in the Holy Trinity.…”
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Emotions and Education through the Prism of Feminist Theories by S. V. Volkova

“…On the one hand, a woman as a teacher should instill the skills of emotional self-control in students, surrounding them with maternal love. But, on the other hand, a woman was traditionally conceived as a bearer of an irrational principle that puts society and public interests at risk. …”
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La strana arte di Dante Gabriel Rossetti traduttore di Dante by Paolo De Ventura

“…Il rapporto di continuità tra il traduttore e il poeta viene analizzato guardando a due sonetti (Gentil pensiero dalla Vita Nuova, e Life-in-love dalla House of Life), seguendo il filo che da una traduzione porta, inaspettatamente, alla composizione originale. …”
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Heart of the Country by Len Kamerling

“…It is also the story of the village of Kanayama, a rural farming community bound together by love for its children and a deep respect for learning. …”
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Inmigración asiática y homoerotismo: nuevas configuraciones de la otredad en el teatro argentino actual by Beatriz Trastoy

“…Kitsch, snobbery and frivolity, which confuse everything, and also prejudices, intolerance and discrimination, that stigmatize everything, are the pathetic background of a homosexual love story that leaves traditional gender constructions far behind.…”
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Imago Dei, Ontological and Relational Interpretations. Introducing Edith Stein to the Debate by Christof Betschart

“…(FEB 504 [422]) This ontological approach contributes to a consideration of interpersonal enrichment through love, as a way to personal fulfilment and to complementarity through communion. …”
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L. N. TOLSTOY IN SEARCH OF SPIRITUAL SENSE OF HUMAN by V. E. Gromov

“…Tolstoy's methodological approach to justifying the absoluteness of nonviolence principle is one-sided and not productive for a true interpretation of the spiritual nature of the Christ’s message about love and mercy.…”
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‘Thou Whole Burnt-Offering!’ The Mystical Ecstasy in Christina Rossetti’s Poems by Bertrand Lentsch

“…In order to while away the time, she will write poems which stage her one Passion for God, with whom she has fallen head over heels in love, more than with life itself, since she repulses men, whom she finds inadequate, in a Victorian society which yet allotted them pride of place, unwitting though it was of women, who were deemed redundant. …”
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Chambres en souffrance : révéler la parole des artistes et des femmes victimes de violences à travers l’espace intime by Adélie Le Guen

“…Virginia Woolf discussed this enclosed space, which, like their own bodies, women could not freely avail themselves of; this room – in which they lacked the freedom to love in accordance with their choices, to create as they wished, or just to be alone – represents subordination, abuse, wounds. …”
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Una memoria de difícil desarraigo by Humberto Ortega Villaseñor, Alvaro Felipe Ortega González

“…Meaning, an anonymous remembrance able to combine simultaneously the exercise of theocratic power, love and respect for the ancestors, the inescapable condition of being together, and the compliance with specific calendrical deadlines.…”
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Swinging between two poles. Henri Nouwen’s unique metaphor for spiritual transformation by G. Marchinkowski

“…This “antidote” is expressed as a process of transformation into love. This article considers the nature of transformation in the classic mystical tradition and touches on the contributions of perennial philosophy and transpersonal psychology which may have influenced Nouwen. …”
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