Foreword, Arthur C. Danto
Introduction, Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins
I
-Plato, from Symposium
-Sappho, Poems
-Theano, Letter on Marriage and Fidelity
-Ovid, from The Art of Love
-Augustine, from The City of God
-Heloise and Abelard, Letters
-Andreas Capellanus, from On Love
-William Shakespeare, Thirteen Sonnets
-John Milton, on Marriage and Divorce
-Baruch Spinoza, from Ethics
-Jean-Jacques Rousseau, from the Second Discourse, Emile, and New Heloise
-G.W.F. Hegel, a Fragment on Love
-Arthur Schopenhauer, from World as Will and Idea
-Stendhal (Henri Beyle), from On Love
-Friedrich Nietzsche, Selections
II
-Sigmund Freud, On the University Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love, On Narsissicm: An Introduction, and “Civilized” Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness
-Carl Jung, Marriage as a Psychological Relationship
Karen Horney, Love and Marriage
-Rainer Maria Rilke, Poems
-Emma Goldman, On the Tragedy of Women’s Emancipation, and Marriage and Love
-Denis de Rougemont, from Love in the Western World
-Jean-Paul Sartre, from Being and Nothingness
-Simone de Beauvoir, from The Second Sex
-Philip Slater, from The Pursuit of Loneliness
-Shulamith Firestone, from The Dialectic of Sex
III
-Irving Singer, from The Nature of Love
-Martha Nussbaum, The Speech of Alcibiades: A Reading of Plato’s Symposium
-Jerome Neu, Plato’s Homoerotic Symposium
-Louis Mackey, Eros into Logos: The Rhetoric of Courtly Love
-Amelie Rorty, Spinoza on the Pathos of Idolatrous Love and the Hilarity of True Love
-Elizabeth Rapaport, On the Future of Love: Rousseau and the Radical Feminists
-Kathryn Pauly Morgan, Romantic Love, Altruism, and Self-Respect: An Analysis of Beauvoir
IV
-Robert Nozick, Love's Bond
-Annette Baier, Unsafe Loves
-William Gass, Throw the Emptiness out of Your Arms: Rilke's Doctrine of Nonpossessive Love
-Laurence Thomas, Reasons for Loving
Ronald de Sousa, Love as Theater
Robert C. Solomon, The Virtue of (Erotic) Love
Source Notes and Acknowledgments
