Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy

The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy collects 39 original chapters from prominent philosophers on the nature, meaning, value, and predicaments of love, presented in a unique framework that highlights the rich variety of methods and traditions used to engage with these subjects. This volume is structured around important realms of human life and activity, each of which receives its own section:

I. Family and Friendship

II. Romance and Sex

III. Politics and Society
IV. Animals, Nature, and the Environment

V. Art, Faith, and Meaning

VI. Rationality and Morality

VII. Traditions: Historical and Contemporary.

This last section includes chapters treating love as a subject in both Western and non-Western philosophical traditions. The contributions, all appearing in print here for the first time, are written to be accessible and compelling to non-philosophers and philosophers alike; and the volume as a whole encourages professional philosophers, teachers, students, and lay readers to rethink standard constructions of philosophical canons.

List of contents

Introduction, Adrienne M. Martin

Part I. Family and friendship

1. Love and friendship, Diane Jeske



2. Early Relationships, Pathologies of Attachment, and the Capacity to Love, Monique Wonderly
   



3. "Mama, do you love me? A defense of unloving parents," Sara Protasi



4. Loving and (or?) choosing our children: disability, unconditional parental love, and prenatal selection Joseph A. Stramondo


Part II. Romance and sex


5. Love, romance, and sex, Troy Jollimore



6. All Hearts in Love Use Their Own Tongues: Concepts, Verbal Disputes, and Disagreeing About Love, C.S.I Jenkins
   



7. The normative potency of sexually exclusive love, Jennifer Ryan Lockhart



8. Queer Bodies and Queer Love, Maren Behrensen



9. Plato on love and sex, Jeremy Reid



10. Eros and Agape in Interpersonal Relationships: Plato, Emerson, and Peirce, Daniel G. Campos
    



11. Threats, Warnings, and Relationship Ultimatums, Hallie Liberto


Part III. Politics and society


12. Love and marriage, Brook J. Sadler



13. Love, anger, and racial justice, Myisha Cherry



14. Love and political reconciliation, Colleen Murphy



15. The morning stars will sing together: compassion, nonviolence, and the revolution of the heart, Cheyney Ryan


Part IV. Animals, nature, and the environment


16. Love and animals: Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch and attention as love, Elise Aaltola



17. On the love of nature, Rick Anthony Furtak



18. Caring to be green: the importance of love for environmental integrity, Cheryl Hall


Part V. Art, faith, and meaning


19. Love and beauty in eighteenth-century aesthetics, Paul Guyer



20. Love songs, Noël Carroll



21. How faith secures the morality of love, Sharon Krishek



22. What is this thing called love?, Luc Bovens


Part VI. Rationality and morality


23. Reasons for love, Esther Engels Kroeker



24. Reasons of love, Katrian Schaubroeck
    
25. Love and agency, Kyla Ebels-Duggan



26. Love, practical reasons, and African philosophy, Sandy Koullas



27. Love and moral structures: how love can reshape ethical theory, J.L.A. Garcia



28. Moral normativity and the necessities of love, Harry Frankfurt



29. Love and hatred, Jens Haas and Katja Maria Vogt


Part VII. Traditions: Historical and Contemporary


30. The Confucian and Daoist traditions on love, David B. Wong



31. Love: India's distinctive moral theory, Shyam Ranganathan



32. Love in the Jewish tradition, Lenn E. Goodman



33. Love in Islamic philosophy, Ali Altaf Mian



34. Three models of Christian love: Platonic, Aristotelian, and Kantian, Eric. J. Silverman



35. European concepts of love in the 17^th and 18^th centuries, Gábor Boros



36. Love in 19^th-century Western philosophy, Michael Strawser



37. (The varieties of) love in contemporary Anglophone philosophy, Benjamin Bagley



38. Love in contemporary psychology and neuroscience, Berit Brogaard

About the author

Adrienne M. Martin is Akshata Murty ’02 and Rishi Sunak Associate Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and George R. Roberts Fellow, at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of How We Hope: A Moral Psychology (2013).

Summary

The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy collects 39 original chapters from prominent philosophers on the nature, meaning, value, and predicaments of love, presented in a unique framework that highlights the rich variety of methods and traditions used to engage with these subjects.

Product details

• Authors: Adrienne M. Martin
• Assisted by: Adrienne M. Martin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781138184442
• ISBN: 978-1-138-18444-2
• No. of pages: 504
• Series: Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy of Mind, Ethics & moral philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge