Sex, Love, and Friendship : : Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1977-1992.

• Superior document: Value Inquiry Book
• VerfasserIn: Soble, Alan.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1997.; ©1997.
• Year of Publication: 1997
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Value Inquiry Book
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (699 pages)

This collection joins together sixty essays on the philosophy of love and sex. Each was presented at a meeting of The Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love held between 1977 and 1992 and later revised for this edition. Topics addressed include ethical and political issues (AIDS, abortion, homosexual rights, and pornography), conceptual matters (the nature, essence, or definition of love, friendship, sexual desire, and perversion); the study of classical and historical figures (Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Kant, and Kierkegaard); and issues in feminist theory (sexual objectification, the social construction of female sexuality, reproductive and marital arrangements). Authors include Jerome Shaffer, Sandra Harding, Michael Ruse, Richard Mohr, Russell Vannoy, Claudia Card, M.C. Dillon, Gene Fendt, Steven Emmanuel, T.F. Morris, Timo Airaksinen, and Sylvia Walsh. The editor, who is the author of Pornography (1986), The Structure of Love (1990), and Sexual Investigations (1996), has also contributed six pieces and an Introduction.

Table of Contents

Sexual desire / Jerome A. Shaffer -- The definition of love in Plato's Symposium / Donald Levy -- The language of sex and the sex of language / Hugh T. Wilder -- "Sexual paradigms" twenty years later / Flo Leibowitz -- Why are love and sex philosophically interesting? / Ann Garry -- Why love and sex are really interesting / Sandra Harding -- Are there gay genes? Sociobiology and homosexuality / Michael Ruse -- Hatching your genes before they're counted / Lee Rice and Steven Barbone -- Are androgyny and sexuality compatible? / Robert Pielke -- Love as a kind of friendship / Eric Hoffman -- Three kinds of love / Donald Levy -- Gay civil rights : the arguments / Richard D. Mohr -- What is wrong with treating women as sex objects? / Linda LeMoncheck -- Objections to sex objectification / Richard C. Richards -- Women as sex objects / John P. Sullivan -- Sex (and other) objects / Ann Garry -- Sex, love, and friendship / John McMurtry -- Why should we exclude exclusivity? / Jo-Ann Pilardi -- A lakoma / Alan Soble -- Toward a new model of sexuality / Deborah Rosen and John Christman. Sexual and other activities and the ideal life / Mary Ann Carroll -- Sexual activity / Alan Soble -- Abortion and sexual morality / Roger Paden -- More on abortion and sexual morality / Alan Soble -- Can sex express love? / Russell Vannoy -- Lovesexpressed / Edward Johnson -- Spinoza and human sexuality / Steven Barbone and Lee Rice -- Sex : plain and symbol / Leonard J. Berkowitz -- The symbolic significance of sex / Claudia Card -- Body language / Charles W. Johnson -- Sex, time, and love : erotic temporality / M.C. Dillon -- Eros and human finitude / Diane P. Michelfelder -- Friends as ends in themselves / Neera Kapur Badhwar -- Irreplaceability / Alan Gerald Soble -- The structure of sexual perversity / Russell Vannoy -- Romantic love : neither sexist nor heterosexist / Carol Caraway -- Love without sex / Dana E. Bushnell -- The unity of romantic love / Alan Soble -- Romantic love : a patchwork / Carol Caraway -- Marital friendship : toward a reconception of romance / Stephen M. Fishman. An unromantic reply to "Marital friendship" / Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson -- AIDS and Bowers v. Hardwick / Christine Pierce -- An obligation to warn of HIV infection? / David J. Mayo -- Love at second sight / Alan Soble -- Is Works of love a work of love? / Gene Fendt -- Biography in the interpretation of Kierkegaard / Steven M. Emmanuel -- Kierkegaard on despair in Works of love / T.F. Morris -- Which one is the real one? / Anthony J. Graybosch -- Love is the real one / Richard C. Richards -- The style of Sade : sex, text, and cruelty / Timo Airaksinen -- Repetition and revulsion in the Marquis de Sade / Dorothea Olkowski -- The attractions of gender / Steven G. Smith -- Are the attractions of gender really attractions? / Nancy E. Snow -- Eros, romantic illusion and political opportunism (Symposium 178-180) / Natalie Dandekar -- Romantic and philosophical views of eros in Plato's Symposium / Carol S. Gould -- Romantic love / Joseph Kupfer -- Solving Stendhal's problem / Art Stawinski -- Imagination, and other, matters / Lee Horvitz -- Pornography, art, and the origins of consciousness / Justin Leiber -- Desire and love in Kierkegaard's Either/Or / Sylvia Walsh.