Gillian Rose came to wider attention with a slim volume published in 1995,
Love’s Work: A Reckoning with Life. A lyrical, philosophical memoir, at times poetic, at times novelistic, she conveys her distinct Hegelian vision of philosophy as at once existential and conceptual, lived and thought; a process of recognition-and-misrecognition, failing better, working through the difficult, appropriating difficulty in order to come to terms with it and live with it productively: a process that ‘requires taking in before letting be’ (Rose 1995b, 98).
In this text Rose recounts the story of King Arthur’s vision of Camelot undone by Launcelot’s affair with Guinevere as an allegory of philosophy and of reason itself:
In this text Rose recounts the story of King Arthur’s vision of Camelot…
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Citation: Brower Latz, Andrew. "Gillian Rose". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 November 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=15286, accessed 17 January 2025.]
