Kjærlighetens akademia

av Sigve Indregard

Fag­ar­tik­ler i aka­de­miske tids­skrif­ter har ofte dre­pende kje­de­lige tit­ler. De er beskri­vende, kon­sise og infor­ma­tive; de fører til at ingen ønsker å lese dem.

Andre artik­ler har fan­tas­tiske tit­ler, og som en tom­mel­fin­ger­re­gel kan man anta at disse artik­lene er mer inter­es­sante. Det skyl­des enkelt og greit at men­nes­ker som kom­mer på så inter­es­sante tit­ler er fysisk ute av stand til å pro­du­sere kje­de­lig innhold.

Her er noen eksemp­ler, med et lite sitat fra inn­hol­det. Skynd deg å lese disse!

  • Love and Taxes — and Match­ing Insti­tu­tions.i
    “Eve­ryone pre­fers a part­ner that has a high income and is a perfect emo­tio­nal match, but com­pro­mi­ses must often be struck. A high-​​income ear­ner may abs­tain from mar­ry­ing a low-​​income ear­ner even though they would be a perfect match emo­tio­nally, because he may dis­like the impli­cit income redis­tri­bu­tion implied by mar­riage. Redis­tri­bu­tive income taxa­tion may ease this problem.”
  • Neces­sity, Voli­tions, and Love.ii
    “It is some­ti­mes clai­med that the ana­ly­tic phi­lo­sophy in which I was edu­cated, and to whose ethos and canons of intel­lec­tual style I still ende­a­vour more or less to adhere, pos­ses­ses cer­tain new and espec­ially power­ful tools and tech­ni­ques, which allegedly enable it to achieve an inva­luable pene­tra­tion and rigor but which ine­vi­tably also dis­tance it from the uni­ni­tia­ted. I have no idea what these remar­kable tools and tech­ni­ques are sup­po­sed to be, and I am pretty sure that I do not pos­sess them.”
  • “Jane Eyre” and the Secrets of Furious Love­ma­king.iii
    “And still less was I cer­tain how to treat her furt­her descrip­tion of the book’s dis­tin­guish­ing cha­rac­te­ri­s­tic as its por­trayal of “furious lovemaking”—a kind of love­ma­king that she thought con­sti­tuted “a wild decla­ra­tion of the ‘Rights of Woman’ in a new aspect.” To be frank, seven­ties femi­nism was uneasy in the pre­sence of the ero­tic, torn between Erica Jong’s noto­rious cele­bra­tion of the “zip­less fuck” and Kate Millett’s not unre­lated claim that “there is no remedy to sexual poli­tics in marriage.”

Det fin­nes helt sik­kert flere — vet du om noen?

Fot­no­ter

  1. Kon­rad, K. and Lom­me­rud, K. 2008. ‘Love and Taxes — and Match­ing Insti­tu­tions’. CEPR Discus­sion Paper no. 6703. Lon­don, Centre for Eco­no­mic Policy Rese­arch. http://www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP6703.asp. [↩]
  2. Harry G. Frank­furt, Cam­bridge UP 1999. [↩]
  3. Sandra M. Gil­bert i NOVEL: A Forum on Fic­tion, Vol. 31, No. 3, Thir­tieth Anni­ver­sary Issue: III (Sum­mer, 1998), pp. 351–372. [↩]

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