Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction
by Susan Wolf (Editor), Christopher Grau (Editor)
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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. Many varieties of love are discussed, among them, friendship, romantic love, parental love, and the love of an author for her characters.Tags
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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 the author of Freedom within Reason (OUP, 1990) and Meaning in life and why it show more matters (Princeton, 2010); and co-editor with christopher Grau of Understanding Love: Philosophy, Film, and Fiction (OUP, 2014). show less
Christopher Grau is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University. He is the author of several essays that explore ethical issues through film, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Morality of Memory, which appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. He is also the editor of Philosophers Explore the Matrix show more (2005). show less
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- Nonfiction, Literature Studies and Criticism, Philosophy
- DDC/MDS
- 791.43 — Arts & recreation Recreation, sports, and performing arts Public performances Motion pictures, radio, television, podcasting Motion pictures
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- PN1995.9 .L6 .U53 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Drama Motion pictures
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