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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication page
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
Chapter 1: Puzzles
Objects of love: what can we love?
How subjective is love?
Do we love for reasons?
Is love blind?
Is love freedom, or bondage?
Does love mar the purity of sex?
Chapter 2: Perspectives
Love and nature: the good and the bad
Love embodied
The ladder of love
The return of the particular
What is erotic propriety?
An evolutionary perspective on love
How does it feel, and why?
Can love be analysed?
Chapter 3: Desire
What does the lover want?
The curse of satisfaction
The altruists’ dilemma
The Champagne verdict
Chapter 4: Reasons
Good and bad reasons for love
How reasons work
Two more puzzles diagnosed
A political dimension
Fixing love’s target
Historicity
Love and beauty again
Chapter 5: Science
Botanizing love
Typologies of love
What about the brain?
Three syndromes of love
Love debunked? Or science demoted?
A multiplicity of syndromes
Chapter 6: Utopia
Better loving through chemistry
Love’s ideologists and rebels
Nature as ideology
Proofs of possibility
Erotic utopia
References
Chapter 1: Puzzles
Chapter 2: Perspectives
Chapter 3: Desire
Chapter 4: Reasons
Chapter 5: Science
Chapter 6: Utopia
Further reading
Anthologies and collections
Single-authored works
Websites
Index
Social Media
Online Catalogue
Beauty
Sexuality
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