Description
The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love offers a wide array of original essays on the nature and value of love. The editors, Christopher Grau and Aaron Smuts, have assembled an esteemed group of thinkers, including both established scholars and younger voices. The volume contains thirty-three essays addressing both issues about love as well as key philosophers who have contributed to the philosophy of love, such as Plato, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Murdoch. The topics range from central issues about the nature and variety of love, the possibility of its rational justification, and whether it is an emotion, to the significance of love for law, economics, morality, and free will. The volume also contains an introduction to the subject as well as essays on love's relation to jealousy, religion, knowledge, biotechnology, and several other topics. This wide-ranging handbook will be a key resource for specialists working on the philosophy of love, and a helpful guide for those looking to learn more about the area.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Christopher Grau & Aaron Smuts Varieties of love 2. Love: The Basic Questions Susan Wolf 3. Romantic Love for a Reason Berit Brogaard 4. Parental Love Norvin Richards 5. Love and Animals Tony Milligan 6. The Ordinary Concept of True Love Brian D. Earp, Daniel Do, and Joshua Knobe Justifications for Love 7. Love, Value, and Reasons Kate Abramson & Adam Leite 8. The "No Reasons" View Aaron Smuts 9. Love as "Something in Between" Troy Jollimore Explanations of Love 10. Is Love an Emotion? Arina Pismenny & Jesse Prinz 11. Love as a Disposition Hichem Naar 12. Love and Evolution Michael Ruse 13. Love and Time Aaron Ben-Ze'ev & Angelika Krebs Love and Value 14. Love and Caring Agnieszka Jaworska & Monique Wonderly 15. Love and Autonomy Nora Kreft 16. Love, Morality, and Alienation Julia Driver 17. Love and Economics Patricia Marino Philosophers of Love 18. Plato, Socrates, and Love Iakovos Vasiliou 19. Aristotle on the Love of Friends Neera Badhwar & Rusty Jones 20. Kierkegaard on Love John Lippitt 21. Schopenhauer on Love Fiona Ellis 22. Merleau-Ponty on Love Todd May 23. Simone de Beauvoir on Love Skye C. Cleary 24. Iris Murdoch on Love Niklas Forsberg Intersections 25. Love and the Law Elizabeth Brake 26. Love and Sex Raja Halwani 27. Love, Jealousy, and Compersion Ronald de Sousa 28. Love and Infidelity No?l Carroll 29. Love and Knowledge Sophie-Grace Chappell 30. Love and Literature Kathleen Higgins 31. Love and Religion John Cottingham 32. Love and Freedom Derk Pereboom 33. Love and the Rationality of Grief Dan Moller 34. Love and Enhancement Technology Brian Earp
