This collection of essays on the philosophy of love, by leading contributors to the discussion, places particular emphasis on the relation between love, its character and appropriateness and the objects towards which it is directed: romantic and erotic partners, persons, ourselves, strangers, non-human animals and art.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction; Christian Maurer, Tony Milligan and Kamila Pacovská PART I: ROMANTIC AND EROTIC LOVE 1. Dialogical Love; Angelika Krebs 2. Ain’t Love Nothing but Sex Misspelled? The Role of Sex in Romantic Love; Aaron Ben-Ze’ev 3. Loving Persons: Activity and Passivity in Romantic Relationships; Michael Kühler 4. What did Socrates Love?; Tomáš Hejduk PART II: THE APPROPRIATE BELOVED 5. Self-hatred, Self-love and Value; Kate Abramson & Adam Leite 6. Is it Better to Love Better Things?; Aaron Smuts 7. Loving the Lovable; Katrien Schaubroeck 8. Loving Villains: Virtue in Response to Wrongdoing; Kamila Pacovská PART III: STRANGERS 9. Loving a Stranger; Jan Bransen 10. On ‘Love at First Sight’; Christian Maurer PART IV: HUMANS AND PERSONS 11. Persons as Irreplaceable; Elizabeth Drummond Young 12. What Relationship Structure Tells Us about Love; Magdalena Hoffmann PART V: THE NON-HUMAN 13. Animals and the Capacity for Love; Tony Milligan 14. The Love of Art: Art, Oikophilia, and Philokalia; Daniel Gustafsson Index
Circa l’autore
Kate Abramson, Indiana University, USA Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, University of Haifa, Israel Jan Bransen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Elizabeth Drummond Young, University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Gustafsson works at the intersections of philosophy, theology and the arts Tomá Hejduk, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic Magdalena Hoffmann, University of Bern, Switzerland Angelika Krebs, University of Basel, Switzerland Michael Kühler, Münster University, Germany Adam Leite, Indiana University, USA Katrien Schaubroeck, University of Antwerp, Belgium Aaron Smuts, Rhode Island College, USA
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