Declaration and bestowal: a love story
Hershfield, Jeffrey A.
Hershfield, Jeffrey A.
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2022-02-16
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Love,Bestowal,Appraisal,Singer,Irving,Status function declaration,Searle,John
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Hershfield, J. Declaration and Bestowal: A Love Story. SOPHIA (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-022-00900-9
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Irving Singer has defended the thesis that the "fne gold thread" of love, its sine qua non, is the bestowal of value by the lover on the beloved, even in those cases where the love itself is grounded in a positive appraisal of the beloved’s attributes. He sug‑
gests that bestowal is a matter of elevating the importance of the beloved and his or her needs and interests above their appraised merit. I argue that love’s bestowal is principally efected through speech acts of the kind that John Searle refers to as Status Function Declarations, the very same linguistic mechanism by which, according to him, all of social or institutional reality is created. On this picture, the roles of lover and beloved are shown to be status functions constituted by a deontology that
delineates the partiality of the former towards the latter.
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Springer
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Sophia;2022
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1873-930X
0038-1527
0038-1527