Explorations in Love and Sex

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by Irving Singer

Rowman and Littlefield

Due/Published August 2001, 224 pages, paper

ISBN 074251238X

Beginning with a discussion of Kant, Schopenhauer, and others about the morality of sex and the morality of compassion, "Explorations in Love and Sex" offers a panoramic view of the philosophy of love from its beginnings in Plato up to the present. It examines the nature and limitations of sexual pluralism, and elaborates on Irving Singer's earlier ideas about appraisal and bestowal as well as various other distinctions he makes. The book's chapters are both philosophical and historical, and addressed to the average person who wants to understand the curious set of emotions called love.

Author Biography: Irving Singer is professor of philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of "Feeling and Imagination" and "Sex: A Philosophical Primer".