Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present, and Future

This volume features original essays on the philosophy of love. The essays are organized thematically around the past, present, and future of philosophical thinking about love.

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André Grahle is Assistant Professor in philosophy at LMU Munich. Before that he was a post-doc at the University of Osnabrück. He received his Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews in 2014. His work centres around questions of political and social philosophy, as well as topics in the ethics of emotions, ideals and relationships.

Natasha McKeever is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield in 2014, which she wrote on the topic of romantic love and monogamy. Her research interests are primarily in the philosophy of love and sex, and she has published articles on topics including: rape, asexuality, prostitution, romantic love, sexual infidelity, and sexual exclusivity. She is currently co-editing the forthcoming anthology with Raja Halwani and Jacob Held: The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 8th edition.

Joe Saunders is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. He works on ethics and agency in Kant and the post-Kantian tradition, the philosophy of love and media ethics.

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Introduction

André Grahle, Natasha McKeever, and Joe Saunders

Part I: Past

1. Love and Death in Plato's Symposium

Ginger Tate Clausen

2. Aristotelian Communal Love

Anna Mense

3. Love your neighbour as Yourself

Terence Irwin

4. Love's Telos: Kierkegaard's Critique of Preferential Love

Daniel Watts

5. Erich Fromm on Love and Union: Mysticism and Romanticism about Sexual Relations

Christopher Bennett

Part II: Present

6. Love and the Past (and Present, and Future)

Troy Jollimore

7. Falling in Love

Pilar Lopez-Cantero

8. Erotic Thoughts

Neil Delaney

9. Loves Passed

Joe Saunders

10. "Ain't Love Grand?" Looking at Grandparental Love

Christine Overall

Part III: Future

11. Polyamory: The Future of Love?

Luke Brunning

12. Love without Possession

André Grahle

13. Romantic Love in a political liberal society

Alison Toop

14. The Technological Future of Love

Sven Nyholm, John Danahar, and Brian D. Earp

15. Online Dating and Love Robots: How technology may undermine valuable features of romantic love

Natasha McKeever