The German philosopher explained at the outset of his Phenomenology of Spirit (1807): “ the Absolute is not supposed to be comprehended, it is to be felt and intuited not the Notion of the Absolute, but the feeling and intuition of it, must govern what is said, and must be expressed by it” (Hegel 4). For, as Helen Wussow observes, “Although it is difficult to prove to what extent Lawrence read Hegel, n ‘Art and the Individual’ (1908) Lawrence displays a familiarity with Hegel’s aesthetic concepts” (Wussow 185). I find it most appropriate to refer to these categories through the philosophical lens of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Love isn’t a desideratum –it is an emotion you feel or you don’t feel, according to circumstance” ( WL 115).ģ We can clearly see that Lawrence places love into the sphere of the relative refusing to treat it as something absolute. It is just part of human relationships, no more. But I can’t see how it becomes an absolute.
In Women in Love, through Birkin, Lawrence further expanded and amplified his concept: “Love is one of the emotions like all the other –and so it is all right whilst you feel it. It is strictly a belief in force, for love is a unifying force” ( RDP, L 7). It is a belief in the means, but not in the end. It is a belief in absolute love, when love is by nature relative. It is there that Lawrence speculates on the very nature of love as one of the most fundamental human feelings and writes that “ecause love is strictly a travelling, ‘it is better to travel than to arrive,’ somebody has said. The most intense philosophical reflection on the notion of love occurs in the period 1915-1925, culminating in the collection of essays Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine (1925). “Love is a travelling, a motion,” he wrote in his essay titled “Love” ( RDP, L 24). Thus, he was never tired of offering metaphors for love, like that of a travelling, a flower or a river. 1Ģ Love discourse in Lawrence’s works hinges on certain postulates that the writer reiterates from one text to another. Specifically, Lawrence also speculated about the Christian doctrine of love (namely in Apocalypse ), a subject well-researched and substantiated by Pericles Tangas.
Moore, justly earned him the “title” of “priest of love.” The writer’s edifying philosophies are religious in scale, based on certain absolutes (as in any religion) and are scattered throughout such fictional and non-fictional works as Studies in Classic American Literature (1923), the essays “Love,” (1918) “Nobody Loves Me,” (1936) “A Propos of Lady Chatterley’s Lover ,” (1930) and Women in Love (1920).
Lawrence’s most distinguishable hallmark, which, thanks to H. T. Lawrence and Christian Love,” in Etudes Lawrenciennes, 34, 2006: 173-190.ġ Preaching the value of love is D. H.
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