Love: A History (Oxford University Press, 2024), edited by BC Moakley Professor of Political Science Ryan Patrick Hanley, traces the history of thinking about love from antiquity to the 20th century, and includes how various literary, cultural, and political representations of love supplement the history of philosophical reflection. According to the publisher, Love: A History “chronicles the most significant moments in this concept’s long and remarkable evolutionary life, ranging from ancient Hebrew and Greek and Christian conceptions of love to those advanced by thinkers from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Levinas.” As an interconnected story, the volume also tells a story the ways in which love’s horizons shifted from the transcendent to the immanent.
The book of love
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