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

1. Love and friendship, Diane Jeske






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






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





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








Part II. Romance and sex




5. Love, romance, and sex, Troy Jollimore






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






7. The normative potency of sexually exclusive love, Jennifer Ryan Lockhart





8. Queer Bodies and Queer Love, Maren Behrensen





9. Plato on love and sex, Jeremy Reid






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






11. Threats, Warnings, and Relationship Ultimatums, Hallie Liberto








Part III. Politics and society




12. Love and marriage, Brook J. Sadler





13. Love, anger, and racial justice, Myisha Cherry





14. Love and political reconciliation, Colleen Murphy





15. The morning stars will sing together: compassion, nonviolence, and the revolution of the heart, Cheyney Ryan








Part IV. Animals, nature, and the environment




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





17. On the love of nature, Rick Anthony Furtak





18. Caring to be green: the importance of love for environmental integrity, Cheryl Hall








Part V. Art, faith, and meaning




19. Love and beauty in eighteenth-century aesthetics, Paul Guyer





20. Love songs, Noël Carroll





21. How faith secures the morality of love, Sharon Krishek





22. What is this thing called love?, Luc Bovens








Part VI. Rationality and morality




23. Reasons for love, Esther Engels Kroeker





24. Reasons of love, Katrian Schaubroeck



25. Love and agency, Kyla Ebels-Duggan





26. Love, practical reasons, and African philosophy, Sandy Koullas





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





28. Moral normativity and the necessities of love, Harry Frankfurt





29. Love and hatred, Jens Haas and Katja Maria Vogt








Part VII. Traditions: Historical and Contemporary




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





31. Love: India's distinctive mor