Susan Wolf, Introduction
1. Macalester Bell, "Fording the Great Divide: Grizzly Man and the
Possibilities and Limits of Human-Animal Friendship"
2. Lawrence Blum, "False Symmetries in Far From Heaven"
3. Maria DiBattista, "The Untold Want of Now, Voyager"
4. Frances Ferguson, "Communicating Love: Ian McEwan, Saturday, and
Personal Affection in the Information Age"
5. Christopher Grau, "Love, Loss, and Identity in Solaris"
6. Nick Halpern, "The Embarrassing Father"
7. Rae Langton, "Projected Love"
8. Douglas MacLean, "Between Desire and Destruction: Reflections on
The Go-Between"
9. Toril Moi, , "Something that resembles a kind of love: Fantasy
and Realism in Little Eyolf"
10. Fred Neuhouser, "Rousseau's Julie: Passion, Love, and the Price
of Virtue"
11. David L. Paletz, "Sherman's March: Romantic Love in Documentary
Films"
12. Gilberto Perez, "Hitchcock's Family Romance: Allegory in Shadow
of a Doubt"
13. C.D.C. Reeve, "Lessons in Looking: Krzysztof Kieslowski's Short
Films on Love"
14. Judith Smith, "Talking Back to Hollywood Love Stories: 'Marital
Realism' Films, 1946-1964"
15. George Toles, "Dipping into Omniscience with Willa Cather:
Authorial Knowledge as Love"
16. George M. Wilson, "Love and Bullshit in Santa Rosa: On The Man
Who Wasn't There"
17. Susan Wolf, "Loving Attention: Lessons in love from The
Philadelphia Story"
Susan Wolf is the Edna J. Koury Distinguished Professor of
Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her
work focuses chiefly on ethics and its close relations in
philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, political philosophy, and
aesthetics. She is author of Freedom within Reason (OUP, 1990) and
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters (Princeton, 2010), as well as
numerous articles ranging widely over topics in
ethics.
Christopher Grau is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clemson
University. He specializes in ethics, topics in metaphysics, and
philosophical work on film. He has published articles in The
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The Journal of Moral
Philosophy, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, The Southern Journal of
Philosophy and Philosophical Topics. He has also previously edited
two books on philosophy and film: Philosophers
Explore The Matrix (OUP, 2005), and Philosophers on Film: Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Routledge, 2009).
"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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