Understanding Love

Philosophy, Film, and Fiction

By: Susan Wolf (Editor), Christopher Grau (Editor)

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Hardcover | 27 February 2014

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448 Pages

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This collection of original essays, written by scholars from disciplines across the humanities, addresses a wide range of questions about love through a focus on individual films, novels, plays, and works of philosophy. The essays touch on many varieties of love, including friendship, romantic love, parental love, and even the love of an author for her characters. How do social forces shape the types of love that can flourish and sustain themselves? What is the relationship between love and passion? Is love between human and nonhuman animals possible? What is the role of projection in love? These questions and more are explored through an investigation of works by authors ranging from Henrik Ibsen to Ian McEwan, from Rousseau to the Coen Brothers.

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"Reading these essays in conjunction with viewing or reading the works on which they focus can be instructive, both about how much is in these works and about ways of reading films, novels, and plays more generally... This is a book that can be enjoyed in many ways over time by reading the essays and going to the art works discussed armed with new questions and with new knowledge about the meanings of the art works discussed." --Metapsychology Reviews Online "This book contains seventeen articles by scholars from across the humanities. Each article focuses on some aspect of love, broadly construed. There are essays on romantic love, filial love, love of animals, and even authorial knowledge as love. No two essays deal with the same film or novel. This has the virtue of exposing the reader to a variety of artistic contexts through which puzzles about the nature of love are posed and explored." -- Philosophy in Review "Born out of a desire to bring together disparate voices across the humanities, this volume looks at love using a "non-disciplinarian" model of interdisciplinarity...Highly Recommended." -- CHOICE

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