The Links Between Love and Hate | Renata Salecl

We think love an indisputable force for good. Yet from Jihadi John to Anders Breivik, extremists often cite love of creed or country to justify atrocity. Might love of a person or group also be the origin of prejudice and hatred towards others? Are love and hatred forever entwined as Freud suggested? Or can we imagine a society built on love and free from tribalism?

Renata Salecl: Renata Salecl is a philosopher, sociologist and legal theorist and the author of Perversion of Love and Hate, On Anxiety and her most recent book is called The Tyranny of Choice.

Rowan Williams: Former Archbishop of Canterbury and Master of Magdalene College in Cambridge, Williams is a theologian, poet and author of Being Christian.

Robert Rowland Smith: Quandam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, Rowland-Smith's books include Breakfast with Socrates and Autobiophilosophy.

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