1st Edition
Philosophy of Love in the Past, Present, and Future
Introduction
André Grahle, Natasha McKeever, and Joe Saunders
Part I: Past
1. Love and Death in Plato’s Symposium
Ginger Tate Clausen
2. Aristotelian Communal Love
Anna Mense
3. Love your neighbour as Yourself
Terence Irwin
4. Love’s Telos: Kierkegaard’s Critique of Preferential Love
Daniel Watts
5. Erich Fromm on Love and Union: Mysticism and Romanticism about Sexual Relations
Christopher Bennett
Part II: Present
6. Love and the Past (and Present, and Future)
Troy Jollimore
7. Falling in Love
Pilar Lopez-Cantero
8. Erotic Thoughts
Neil Delaney
9. Loves Passed
Joe Saunders
10. "Ain’t Love Grand?" Looking at Grandparental Love
Christine Overall
Part III: Future
11. Polyamory: The Future of Love?
Luke Brunning
12. Love without Possession
André Grahle
13. Romantic Love in a political liberal society
Alison Toop
14. The Technological Future of Love
Sven Nyholm, John Danahar, and Brian D. Earp
15. Online Dating and Love Robots: How technology may undermine valuable features of romantic love
Natasha McKeever
Biography
André Grahle is Assistant Professor in philosophy at LMU Munich. Before that he was a post-doc at the University of Osnabrück. He received his Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews in 2014. His work centres around questions of political and social philosophy, as well as topics in the ethics of emotions, ideals and relationships.
Natasha McKeever is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics at the University of Leeds, United Kingdom. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Sheffield in 2014, which she wrote on the topic of romantic love and monogamy. Her research interests are primarily in the philosophy of love and sex, and she has published articles on topics including: rape, asexuality, prostitution, romantic love, sexual infidelity, and sexual exclusivity. She is currently co-editing the forthcoming anthology with Raja Halwani and Jacob Held: The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 8th edition.
Joe Saunders is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Durham University. He works on ethics and agency in Kant and the post-Kantian tradition, the philosophy of love and media ethics.
