CONTENTS:

About the Cover, Milton Brown

I LOVE AND POPULAR CULTURE

Love in America, Francesca M. Cancian

Television Love, C. Lee Harrington and Denise D. Bielby

Romance Fiction, Juliette Woodruff

II ROMANTIC LOVE

Love as Crystallization, Stendhal

Falling in Love, José Ortega y Gasset

Romantic Love, Altruism, and Self-Respect, Kathryn Pauly Morgan

The Value of Romantic Love, Ethel Spector Person

III AGAPE AND EROS

The Ascent of Love, Plato

Agape and Eros, Anders Nygren

A Theory of Agape, Stephen G. Post

The Nature of Love, John Brentlinger

Apage in Feminist Ethics, Barbara Hilkert Andolsen

IV FRIENDSHIP

On Friendship, Aristotle

Friends as Ends in Themselves, Neera Kapur Badhwar

The Meaning, Value, and Duties of Friendship, David B. Annis

Friendship as a Moral Phenomenon, Lawrence Blum

V THE POSSIBILITY OF LOVE

Love and Its Disintegration in Contemporary Western Society, Erich Fromm

Sartre: The Impossibility of Love, Irving Singer

VI LOVE AND EMOTION

Love as Duty, Immanuel Kant

Sympathy and Value, Philip Mercer

You Shall Love, Soren Kierkegaard

The One-Caring, Nel Noddings

VII CARING

On Caring, Milton Mayeroff

Compassion, Lawrence Blum

The Logic of Sympathy, Philip Mercer

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