Love

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I: Dead Ends: Why We Need a New Understanding of Love
1. The neglected question: what is love's specific aim?
2. Back to the future: secularizing divine agape
3. The six major conceptions of love in Western history: a summary
4. Why we need a new conception of love

Part II: Love: Towards a New Understanding
5. Love and the promise of rootedness
6. What is ontological rootedness?
7. God as paradigm of a loved one - but not of a lover
8. Love as recognition of lineage
9. Love as recognition of an ethical home
10. Love as recognition of power
11. Love and the call to existence
12. Relationship
13. Fear: the price of love
14. Destructiveness
15. Why love isn't the same as benevolence
16. What divine violence teaches us about love
17. Self-interest as a source of self-giving
18. Exile as love's inspiration
19. Why some epochs (and people) value love more than others
20. The languages of love
21. The primacy of loving over being loved
22. Attentiveness: love's supreme virtue
23. Love and death
24. "Overshooting" the loved one: love's impersonal dimension
25. Can we love ourselves?

Part III: Narratives of Love As Rootedness
26. The Bible: love as a discovery of home
27. The Odyssey: love as a recovery of home

Part IV: How Is Love Related to Beauty, Sex, and Goodness?
28. Why beauty is not the ground of love
29. How important is sex to love?
30. The real relation between love and beauty
31. Can we love the ugly?
32. Can we love evil?

Part V: The Child as the New Supreme Object of Love
33. Why parental love is coming to trump romantic love
34. The conservatism of romantic love
35. Why isn't friendship the new archetypal love?
36. Conclusion: the child as the first truly modern archetypal object of love

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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