Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Love’s Incitement
Chapter 3. Love’s Immediacy
Chapter 4. Love’s Intentionality
Chapter 5. Love’s Eternity
Chapter 6. Love’s Fall
Chapter 7. Love’s Fear
Chapter 8. Conclusion

About the Author

Michael Strawser is chair of the Department of Philosophy and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Central Florida.

Reviews

Power, prominence, or wealth can’t give real meaning to life—only love can. This is a vivid account of love and the story of how love becomes the lodestone of Kierkegaard’s varied and voluminous writing. In this fine and comprehensive book, Strawser shows how love stiches a self together and threads out to gently pull in friends and loved ones, giving verve and traction to a life.
*Edward F. Mooney, Syracuse University*

Michael Strawser’s book. . . is an important contribution to understanding the universal human experience of love. . . . Strawser’s phenomenological exploration of love in the writings of Søren Kierkegaard offers valuable insights into the philosopher’s life’s work. . . Strawser’s book is an approachable and engaging discussion that conveys the relevance of Kierkegaard for a contemporary world very much in need of more love.
*Reading Religion*

According to Michael Strawser, the topic of love has become the central focus of Kierkegaard research in the early twenty-first century. Interpreting Kierkegaard as a phenomenological thinker, Strawser brings the ideas of a nineteenth-century author usefully into dialogue with recent and contemporary philosophers of love and emotion. His discussion is thus aimed at readers who wish to understand Kierkegaard, or love, or both.
*Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College*

Power, prominence, or wealth can’t give real meaning to life—only love can. This is a vivid account of love and the story of how love becomes the lodestone of Kierkegaard’s varied and voluminous writing. In this fine and comprehensive book, Strawser shows how love stitches a self together and threads out to gently pull in friends and loved ones, giving verve and traction to a life.
*Edward F. Mooney, Syracuse University*

According to Michael Strawser, the topic of love has become the central focus of Kierkegaard research in the early twenty-first century. Interpreting Kierkegaard as a phenomenological thinker, Strawser brings the ideas of a nineteenth-century author usefully into dialogue with recent and contemporary philosophers of love and emotion. His discussion is thus aimed at readers who wish to understand Kierkegaard, or love, or both.
*Rick Anthony Furtak, Colorado College*