Love's Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity - Hardcover

Hanley, Ryan Patrick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107105226 ISBN 13: 9781107105225

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This book examines the transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.

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Review

'Hanley's in-depth analysis of ancient and early modern conceptions of love adds significantly to the literature on the ethical and political dimensions of love and scholarship regarding the role that other-directed capacities such as empathy, sympathy, and charity could play in tempering the egocentricism that characterizes political, economic, and social relations.' Choice

'Ryan Patrick Hanley's book offers a carefully researched, interesting, and original survey of how four Enlightenment philosophers transformed the traditional Christian ideal of what is variously called agape, caritas, or neighborly love.' Deborah Boyle, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

'This is a well argued, analytically incisive, informative and important book.' Rebecca Kingston, The Review of Politics

'Love's Enlightenment remains a searching and rewarding study of how returning to some of the eighteenth-century's finest philosophers can enrichen our theorizing of other-directed sentiments today.' Robin Douglass, Journal of the History of Philosophy

Book Description

Love's Enlightenment examines the key concepts central to today's debates over the nature and political significance of love. It will interest both specialists in the history of philosophy and scholars in fields ranging from political science and philosophy to psychology and religion who are interested in the meaning of love today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1107105226
• ISBN 13: 9781107105225
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200