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, Noel 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, practical reasons, and African philosophy, Sandy Koullas







Love and agency, Kyla Ebels-Duggan







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, Gabor 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