Love and Its Objects

What Can We Care For?
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-48048-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 243 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3261 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Maurer, C.

Pacovská, K.

Milligan, T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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