The 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.

• 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.

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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).

Inhalt

Introduction, Adrienne M. Martin

Part I. Family and friendship

1. Love and friendship, Diane Jeske

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

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 mor