Love, Reason, and Will

Love, Reason, and Will: Kierkegaard After Frankfurt introduces and investigates themes common to Harry G. Frankfurt and Søren Kierkegaard, focusing particularly on their understanding of love. Several distinguished contributors argue that Kierkegaard's insights about love, volition, and identity can help us to evaluate aspects of Frankfurt's well-known arguments about love and caring; similarly, Frankfurt's analyses of the higher-order will, valuing, and self-love help clarify themes in Kierkegaard's Works of Love and other books. By bringing these two key thinkers into conversation with each other, we may glean a new understanding of the structure of love, reasons for love or deriving from loving, and more broadly, the central ethical questions of "how to live" and to develop an authentic identity and meaningful life. Love, Reason, and Will will appeal to readers interested in the philosophy of action and emotions, continental thought (especially in the existential tradition), the study of character in psychology, and theological work on neighbor-love and virtues.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations for Parenthetical CitationsIntroductionJohn Davenport, Fordham University, USA, and Anthony Rudd, St. Olaf College, USASection 1: Love and the Ground of Love1. The Sources and Resources of Love: A Platonic Response to FrankfurtCharles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College, USA2. Love and Value, Yet AgainAlan Soble, Drexel University, USA3. The Importance of Whom We Care About Troy Jollimore, California State University, Chico, USA4. Frankfurt and Kierkegarard on B.S., Wantonness, and Aestheticism: A Phenomenology of InauthenticityJohn Davenport, Fordham University, USA Section 2: Love and Self-Love5. The Dear Self: Self-Love, Redoubling, and Self-DenialSylvia Walsh, Stetson University, USA6. Giving 'The Dear Self' its Due: Kierkegaard, Frankfurt, and Self-LoveJohn Lippitt, University of Hertfordshire, UK7. The Fullness of Faith: Frankfurt and Kierkegaard on Self-Love and Human FlourishingMarilyn G. Piety, Drexel University, USA Section 3: Love and Its Reasons8. Selves, Existentially SpeakingAnnemarie van Stee, Leiden University, The Netherlands9. Willing and the Necessities of Love in Frankfurt and KierkegaardM. Jamie Ferreira, University of Virginia, USA10. Love as the Ultimate Ground of Practical Reason: Kierkegaard, Frankfurt, and the Conditionsof Affective ExperienceRick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College, USA11. Kierkegaard's Platonism and the Reasons of LoveAnthony Rudd, St. Olaf's College, USAList of ContributorsBibliographyIndex