1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy

Edited By Adrienne M. Martin Copyright 2019
    504 Pages
    by Routledge

    504 Pages
    by Routledge



    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.



     

    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






      5. Part II. Romance and sex





      6. Love, romance, and sex, Troy Jollimore








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







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






      9. Queer Bodies and Queer Love, Maren Behrensen






      10. Plato on love and sex, Jeremy Reid








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







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






      13. Part III. Politics and society





      14. Love and marriage, Brook J. Sadler






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






      16. Love and political reconciliation, Colleen Murphy






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






      18. Part IV. Animals, nature, and the environment





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






      20. On the love of nature, Rick Anthony Furtak






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






      22. Part V. Art, faith, and meaning





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






      24. Love songs, Noël Carroll






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






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






      27. Part VI. Rationality and morality





      28. Reasons for love, Esther Engels Kroeker






      29. Reasons of love, Katrian Schaubroeck


      30. Love and agency, Kyla Ebels-Duggan






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






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






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






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






      35. Part VII. Traditions: Historical and Contemporary





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






      37. Love: India’s distinctive mor

    Biography

    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).