Love, Reason, and Will

John Davenport is Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, USA. He is the author of Narrative Identity, Autonomy and Mortality: From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard (2012); Will as Commitment and Resolve (2007) and co-editor of Kierkegaard After MacIntyre (2001).Anthony Rudd is Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Olaf College, USA. He is the author of Self, Value and Narrative: a Kierkegaardian Approach (2012); Expressing the World: Skepticism, Wittgenstein and Heidegger (2003) and Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical (1993). He is co-editor of Kierkegaard After MacIntyre (2001).

Love, Reason, and Will: Kierkegaard After Frankfurt is a superb collection of essays on two important figures, whose thought is clearly connected in a number of interesting ways, albeit with some sharp disagreements. Frankfurt’s influence in analytic philosophy is immense, and relating Kierkegaard to his work is a great idea. This is one of the few books that will truly bridge the ‘analytic-continental’ divide in contemporary philosophy.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations for Parenthetical CitationsIntroductionJohn Davenport, Fordham University, USA, and Anthony Rudd, St. Olaf College, USASection 1: Love and the Ground of Love1. The Sources and Resources of Love: A Platonic Response to FrankfurtCharles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College, USA2. Love and Value, Yet AgainAlan Soble, Drexel University, USA3. The Importance of Whom We Care About Troy Jollimore, California State University, Chico, USA4. Frankfurt and Kierkegarard on B.S., Wantonness, and Aestheticism: A Phenomenology of InauthenticityJohn Davenport, Fordham University, USA Section 2: Love and Self-Love5. The Dear Self: Self-Love, Redoubling, and Self-DenialSylvia Walsh, Stetson University, USA6. Giving 'The Dear Self' its Due: Kierkegaard, Frankfurt, and Self-LoveJohn Lippitt, University of Hertfordshire, UK7. The Fullness of Faith: Frankfurt and Kierkegaard on Self-Love and Human FlourishingMarilyn G. Piety, Drexel University, USA Section 3: Love and Its Reasons8. Selves, Existentially SpeakingAnnemarie van Stee, Leiden University, The Netherlands9. Willing and the Necessities of Love in Frankfurt and KierkegaardM. Jamie Ferreira, University of Virginia, USA10. Love as the Ultimate Ground of Practical Reason: Kierkegaard, Frankfurt, and the Conditionsof Affective ExperienceRick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College, USA11. Kierkegaard’s Platonism and the Reasons of LoveAnthony Rudd, St. Olaf’s College, USAList of ContributorsBibliographyIndex