The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy: (Routledge Handbooks 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.

Introduction, Adrienne M. Martin

Part I. Family and friendship

1. 2. Love and friendship, Diane Jeske

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

   6. "Mama, do you love me? A defense of unloving parents," Sara Protasi
   8. Loving and (or?) choosing our children: disability, unconditional parental love, and prenatal selection Joseph A. Stramondo

   9. Part II. Romance and sex

   10. Love, romance, and sex, Troy Jollimore

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

   14. The normative potency of sexually exclusive love, Jennifer Ryan Lockhart
   16. Queer Bodies and Queer Love, Maren Behrensen
   18. Plato on love and sex, Jeremy Reid

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

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

   23. Part III. Politics and society

   24. Love and marriage, Brook J. Sadler
   26. Love, anger, and racial justice, Myisha Cherry
   28. Love and political reconciliation, Colleen Murphy
   30. The morning stars will sing together: compassion, nonviolence, and the revolution of the heart, Cheyney Ryan

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

   32. Love and animals: Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch and attention as love, Elise Aaltola
   34. On the love of nature, Rick Anthony Furtak
   36. Caring to be green: the importance of love for environmental integrity, Cheryl Hall

   37. Part V. Art, faith, and meaning

   38. Love and beauty in eighteenth-century aesthetics, Paul Guyer
   40. Love songs, Noël Carroll
   42. How faith secures the morality of love, Sharon Krishek
   44. What is this thing called love?, Luc Bovens

   45. Part VI. Rationality and morality

   46. Reasons for love, Esther Engels Kroeker
   48. Reasons of love, Katrian Schaubroeck
       
   49. Love and agency, Kyla Ebels-Duggan
   51. Love, practical reasons, and African philosophy, Sandy Koullas
   53. Love and moral structures: how love can reshape ethical theory, J.L.A. Garcia
   55. Moral normativity and the necessities of love, Harry Frankfurt
   57. Love and hatred, Jens Haas and Katja Maria Vogt

   58. Part VII. Traditions: Historical and Contemporary

   59. The Confucian and Daoist traditions on love, David B. Wong
   61. Love: India’s distinctive moral theory, Shyam Ranganathan
   63. Love in the Jewish tradition, Lenn E. Goodman
   65. Love in Islamic philosophy, Ali Altaf Mian
   67. Three models of Christian love: Platonic, Aristotelian, and Kantian, Eric. J. Silverman
   69. European concepts of love in the 17th and 18th centuries, Gábor Boros
   71. Love in 19th-century Western philosophy, Michael Strawser
   73. (The varieties of) love in contemporary Anglophone philosophy, Benjamin Bagley
   75. Love in contemporary psychology and neuroscience, Berit Brogaard

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).