The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Love

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199395729.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Love

Edited by Christopher Grau and Aaron Smuts

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The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love offers a wide array of original essays on the nature and value of love. The editors, Christopher Grau and Aaron Smuts, have assembled an esteemed group of thinkers, including both established scholars and younger voices. The volume contains three dozen essays addressing both issues about love as well as key philosophers who have contributed to the philosophy of love, such as Plato, Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, and Murdoch. The topics range from central issues about the nature and variety of love, the possibility of its rational justification, and whether it is an emotion, to the significance of love for law, economics, morality, and free will. The volume also contains an introduction to the subject as well as essays on love’s relation to jealousy, polyamory, religion, knowledge, and several other topics. This wide-ranging handbook will be a key resource for specialists working on the philosophy of love, and a helpful guide for those looking to learn more about the area.

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Publisher:: Oxford University Press

ISBN:: 9780199395729

Published online:: Feb 2017

DOI:: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199395729.001.0001

Editors

Christopher Grau, editor
Christopher Grau is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University. He specializes in ethics, topics in metaphysics, and philosophical work on film. He has published articles in a variety of journals including the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the Journal of Moral Philosophy, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Philosophical Topics, The Review of Philosophy and Psychology, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy. He is also the editor of three books. The most recent, Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, is co-edited with Susan Wolf and published by Oxford University Press.

Aaron Smuts, editor
Aaron Smuts is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rhode Island College. His interests range across a wide variety of topics in theoretical ethics. Aaron has published over three dozen articles in a variety of books and academic journals, including: American Philosophical Quarterly, the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Pacific Philosophic Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He is the author of Welfare, Meaning, and Worth (Routledge) and is currently writing a book called The Ethics of Imagination and Fantasy (OUP).

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Front Matter
Love: The Basic QuestionsSusan Wolf
Romantic Love for a ReasonBerit Brogaard
Parental LoveNorvin Richards
Love and AnimalsTony Milligan
Love, Value, and ReasonsKate Abramson and Adam Leite
Love as “Something in Between”Troy Jollimore
Is Love an Emotion?Arina Pismenny and Jesse Prinz
Love as a DispositionHichem Naar
Love and EvolutionMichael Ruse
Love and TimeAaron Ben-Ze’ev and Angelika Krebs
Love and CaringAgnieszka Jaworska and Monique Wonderly
Love and AutonomyNora Isolde Kreft
Love and EconomicsPatricia Marino
Plato, Socrates, and LoveIakovos Vasiliou
Aristotle on the Love of FriendsNeera K. Badhwar and Russell E. Jones
Kierkegaard on LoveJohn Lippitt
Schopenhauer on LoveFiona Ellis
Simone de Beauvoir on LoveSkye C. Cleary
Merleau-Ponty on LoveTodd May
Iris Murdoch on LoveNiklas Forsberg
Love and the LawElizabeth Brake
Love and SexRaja Halwani
Love, Jealousy, and CompersionRonald de Sousa
Love and KnowledgeSophie-Grace Chappell
Love and LiteratureKathleen Higgins
Love and ReligionJohn Cottingham
Love and FreedomDerk Pereboom
Love and the Rationality of GriefDan Moller
Love and Enhancement TechnologyBrian D. Earp

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Love

Edited by Christopher Grau and Aaron Smuts

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