The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy

Adrienne M. Martin is Akshata Murty ’02 and Rishi Sunak Associate Professor of Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and George R. Roberts Fellow, at Claremont McKenna College. She is the author of How We Hope: A Moral Psychology (2013).

Introduction, Adrienne M. Martin

Part I. Family and friendship








Love and friendship, Diane Jeske



Early Relationships, Pathologies of Attachment, and the Capacity to Love, Monique Wonderly





"Mama, do you love me? A defense of unloving parents," Sara Protasi



Loving and (or?) choosing our children: disability, unconditional parental love, and prenatal selection Joseph A. Stramondo
Part II. Romance and sex




Love, romance, and sex, Troy Jollimore



All Hearts in Love Use Their Own Tongues: Concepts, Verbal Disputes, and Disagreeing About Love, C.S.I Jenkins





The normative potency of sexually exclusive love, Jennifer Ryan Lockhart



Queer Bodies and Queer Love, Maren Behrensen



Plato on love and sex, Jeremy Reid



Eros and Agape in Interpersonal Relationships: Plato, Emerson, and Peirce, Daniel G. Campos





Threats, Warnings, and Relationship Ultimatums, Hallie Liberto
Part III. Politics and society




Love and marriage, Brook J. Sadler



Love, anger, and racial justice, Myisha Cherry



Love and political reconciliation, Colleen Murphy



The morning stars will sing together: compassion, nonviolence, and the revolution of the heart, Cheyney Ryan
Part IV. Animals, nature, and the environment




Love and animals: Simone Weil, Iris Murdoch and attention as love, Elise Aaltola



On the love of nature, Rick Anthony Furtak



Caring to be green: the importance of love for environmental integrity, Cheryl Hall
Part V. Art, faith, and meaning




Love and beauty in eighteenth-century aesthetics, Paul Guyer



Love songs, Noël Carroll



How faith secures the morality of love, Sharon Krishek



What is this thing called love?, Luc Bovens
Part VI. Rationality and morality




Reasons for love, Esther Engels Kroeker



Reasons of love, Katrian Schaubroeck

Love and agency, Kyla Ebels-Duggan



Love, practical reasons, and African philosophy, Sandy Koullas



Love and moral structures: how love can reshape ethical theory, J.L.A. Garcia



Moral normativity and the necessities of love, Harry Frankfurt



Love and hatred, Jens Haas and Katja Maria Vogt
Part VII. Traditions: Historical and Contemporary




The Confucian and Daoist traditions on love, David B. Wong



Love: India’s distinctive moral theory, Shyam Ranganathan



Love in the Jewish tradition, Lenn E. Goodman



Love in Islamic philosophy, Ali Altaf Mian



Three models of Christian love: Platonic, Aristotelian, and Kantian, Eric. J. Silverman



European concepts of love in the 17th and 18th centuries, Gábor Boros



Love in 19th-century Western philosophy, Michael Strawser



(The varieties of) love in contemporary Anglophone philosophy, Benjamin Bagley



Love in contemporary psychology and neuroscience, Berit Brogaard