Love and Its Objects

What Can We Care For?

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-09-25
Mått:140 x 216 x 20 mm
Vikt:476 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:243
Upplaga:2014
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137383303

Utforska kategorier

Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Kate Abramson, Indiana University, USA Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, University of Haifa, IsraelJan Bransen, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Elizabeth Drummond Young, University of Edinburgh, UK Daniel Gustafsson works at the intersections of philosophy, theology and the artsTomá Hejduk, University of Pardubice, Czech RepublicMagdalena Hoffmann, University of Bern, SwitzerlandAngelika Krebs, University of Basel, Switzerland Michael Kühler, Münster University, GermanyAdam Leite, Indiana University, USA Katrien Schaubroeck, University of Antwerp, BelgiumAaron Smuts, Rhode Island College, USA

Innehållsförteckning

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