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Love and Its Objects

What Can We Care For?

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  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Christian Maurer

    1. University of Fribourg, Switzerland

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  2. Tony Milligan

    1. University of Hertfordshire, UK

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  3. Kamila Pacovská

    1. University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Christian Maurer, Tony Milligan, Kamila Pacovská
      Pages 1-4

  3. Romantic and Erotic Love

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Between I and Thou — On the Dialogical Nature of Love

      • Angelika Krebs
      Pages 7-24

    3. Ain’t Love Nothing but Sex Misspelled? The Role of Sex in Romantic Love

      • Aaron Ben-Ze’ev
      Pages 25-40

    4. Loving Persons: Activity and Passivity in Romantic Love

      • Michael Kühler
      Pages 41-55

    5. What Did Socrates Love?

      • Tomáš Hejduk
      Pages 56-71

  4. The Appropriate Beloved

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Self-hatred, Self-love, and Value

      • Kate Abramson, Adam Leite
      Pages 75-90

    3. Is It Better to Love Better Things?

      • Aaron Smuts
      Pages 91-107

    4. Loving the Lovable

      • Katrien Schaubroeck
      Pages 108-124

    5. Loving Villains: Virtue in Response to Wrongdoing

      • Kamila Pacovská
      Pages 125-139

  5. Strangers

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. Loving a Stranger

      • Jan Bransen
      Pages 143-159

    3. On ‘Love at First Sight’

      • Christian Maurer
      Pages 160-174

  6. Humans and Persons

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Love Reveals Persons as Irreplaceable

      • Elizabeth Drummond Young
      Pages 177-191

    3. What Relationship Structure Tells Us about Love

      • Magdalena Hoffmann
      Pages 192-208

  7. The Nonhuman

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Animals and the Capacity for Love

      • Tony Milligan
      Pages 211-225
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Fribourg, Switzerland

    Christian Maurer

  • University of Hertfordshire, UK

    Tony Milligan

  • University of Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Kamila Pacovská

About the editors

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

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