Nirenberg, DavidDavidNirenberg2025-04-232025-04-232016Nirenberg, David, “Love =,” in Wendy Doniger, et al., eds., What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature, and History (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016), 46-54.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12111/8808Nirenberg, David, “Love =,” in Wendy Doniger, et al., eds., What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature, and History (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016), 46-54.Our philosophical-mythological stories, with Heraclitus on one side and Parmenides on the other, offer us ways of thinking about the logic of the world: infinite change, infinite sameness. This long and much discussed contestation between repetition and difference is a product of our constant tendency to cross from talk of the essence of philosophy to talk of the nature of love and its deep link to sameness. We may start with reason, but seem hell-bent to head for its limits.en-USLovePythagorasPlatoAristotlePhilosophyReasonHistoryBook chapter