Queer Love, Literature and Philosophy. On Reading The Argonauts

In this article, I suggest Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts challenges “epistemic habits” in contemporary critical thought on gender, politics, sexuality, intimacy, identity, and love. particular, focus how Nelson through descriptions of queer life, love, kinship articulates moral-existential queer-philosophical perspectives everyday life by bringing the “I-You” relationship to fore feminist theoretical concerns. By reading with philosophy Wittgenstein, discuss love is related views language what it means say that one can have, as well lack a faith words, other people linguistic meaning. Argonauts, argue, shows us importance acknowledging gender identity their role I-You relations. article raises questions understand between theory, philosophy, ordinary relation cultural critique criticism (Butler 1990; Sedgwick 2003). It also discusses perspective might take have general, not exclusively romantic but philosophical thinking about intimacy.