Love's Enlightenment

A number of prominent moral philosophers and political theorists have recently called for a recovery of love. But what do we mean when we speak of love today? Love''s Enlightenment examines four key conceptions of other-directedness that transformed the meaning of love and helped to shape the way we understand love today: Hume''s theory of humanity, Rousseau''s theory of pity, Smith''s theory of s...