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1 Introduction Notes 1 Introduction 1 . For example, Singer The Pursuit of Love 166. 2 . Joseph, Reynolds, and Woodward The Continuum Companion to Existentialism 3. 3 . Bergmann The Anatomy of Loving: The Story of Man’s Quest to Know What Love Is 96–97. 4 . Solomon “The Virtue of (Erotic) Love” 508–509 and Solomon and Higgins The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love 56. 5 . Honderich The Oxford Companion to Philosophy 778. 6 . Badinter Dead End Feminism 1, 51–52. 7 . Solomon Love: Emotion, Myth, and Metaphor xxix, 54–55. 8 . Adapted from Hendrick and Hendrick “Romantic Love” 204–210. 9 . Dillon Beyond Romance 55. 10 . Nozick “Love’s Bond” 417–419. 11 . Ben-Ze’ev and Goussinsky In the Name of Love: Romantic Ideology and Its Victims xi–xii. 12 . Singer The Pursuit of Love 23. 13 . Singer The Pursuit of Love 165–166. 14 . Solomon Love: Emotion, Myth, and Metaphor xxx, 13–14, 148, 263. 15 . Sternberg Love is a Story x. 16 . Secomb Philosophy and Love: From Plato to Popular Culture . 17 . Hendrick and Hendrick “Romantic Love” 204–205 draw on Berscheid and Walster’s analysis in Interpersonal Attraction . 18 . Sternberg “A Triangular Theory of Love” 119–124. Robert Sternberg draws on Hatfield and Walster, who define passionate reciprocated love as desire for a euphoric and fulfilling union with the beloved ( A New Look at Love 9). 19 . Aron and Aron Love and the Expansion of Self . 20 . Koestenbaum Existential Sexuality: Choosing to Love 36. 21 . Lindholm “Romantic Love and Anthropology” 10, 17. 22 . Hendrick and Hendrick “Romantic Love” 207. 23 . Solomon and Higgins The Philosophy of (Erotic) Love 128. 24 . Harry Frankfurt argues that “disinterested concern” characterizes the essen- tial nature of loving and dismisses romantic loving relationships as impure because there are too many confusing and distracting factors (The Reasons of Love 43). This book seeks to explore such distracting and confusing elements. 25 . Cox The Existentialist’s Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness 114. 26 . Nietzsche “Schopenhauer as Educator” 161. 27 . Nietzsche The Gay Science 228. 28 . Nietzsche The Will to Power 423–424, 513. 29 . Sartre Being and Nothingness 475, 477, 478, 479, 481, 483. 30 . Joseph, Reynolds, and Woodward The Continuum Companion to Existentialism 3 and Macquarrie Existentialism 14. 178 Notes 179 31 . Spillane An Eye for An I: Living Philosophy 315. 32 . For example, Spillane An Eye for An I: Living Philosophy 317–318. 33 . Joseph, Reynolds, and Woodward The Continuum Companion to Existentialism 345–348. 34 . Beauvoir The Prime of Life 112. 35 . Beauvoir The Ethics of Ambiguity 35. 36 . Sartre Being and Nothingness 186. 37 . Erich Fromm notes the important difference between “freedom to” and “freedom from” in Escape from Freedom 35. 38 . Solomon Love: Emotion, Myth, and Metaphor 140. 39 . Koestenbaum Existential Sexuality: Choosing to Love 162. 40 . Mikulincer, Florian, and Hirschberger “The Terror of Death and the Quest for Love: An Existential Perspective on Close Relationships” 287–290. 41 . See, for example, Spillane An Eye for An I: Living Philosophy 324 and Reynolds and Woodward “Existentialism and Poststructuralism: Some Unfashionable Observations” 265. 42 . Sartre Being and Nothingness 703. 43 . Adapted from Koestenbaum Existential Sexuality: Choosing to Love 13–14. 44 . Macquarrie Existentialism 206. 45 . For example, John Macquarrie proposes that interpersonal relations are problematic for existential philosophers because not all being-with-others is authentic, and although they acknowledge our communal existence, their primary concern is with individual being ( Existentialism 16–17). 46 . Cooper Existentialism: A Reconstruction 106. 47 . Sadler Jr Existence and Love: A New Approach in Existential Phenomenology 166, 173, 185. 48 . Koestenbaum Existential Sexuality: Choosing to Love 29. 49 . Segal “The Yearning for Philosophy Today: Its Transformational and Therapeutic Value” 8. 50 . Joseph, Reynolds, and Woodward The Continuum Companion to Existentialism 343–344. 51 . McKinnon “Kierkegaard and the ‘Leap of Faith’” 117. 52 . Christopher Hodgkinson argues for such a structure applied to leadership in The Philosophy of Leadership 38. 53 . Sartre War Diaries: Notebooks from a Phoney War 1939–1940 62. 54 . Szabados “Autobiography and Philosophy: Variations on a Theme of Wittgenstein” 64. 55 . Monk “Philosophical Biography: The Very Idea” 3–6. 56 . See Nietzsche Human, All Too Human 182 and Beyond Good and Evil 37–38. 57 . Cooper Existentialism: A Reconstruction 10. 58 . Camus Lyrical and Critical Essays 345. 59 . Padgett and Wilkens Christianity and Western Thought: A History of Philosophers, Ideas and Movements 83. 60 . For example, see Daigle Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics 4 and Reynolds Understanding Existentialism 110. 61 . Daigle Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics 5 and Joseph, Reynolds, and Woodward The Continuum Companion to Existentialism 5. 62 . For example Joseph, Reynolds, and Woodward The Continuum Companion to Existentialism 5, 290, Cox The Sartre Dictionary 146, Daigle Existentialist 180 Notes Thinkers and Ethics 5, Cooper Existentialism: A Reconstruction 9, and Solomon Living with Nietzsche 206–207. 63 . Carroll Break-Out from the Crystal Palace 39. 64 . Cooper Existentialism: A Reconstruction 6. 65 . Simons, Benjamin, and Beauvoir “Simone de Beauvoir: An Interview” 338. 66 . Joseph, Reynolds, and Woodward The Continuum Companion to Existentialism 310–311. 67 . Johnson The Psychology of Romantic Love xi. 68 . See Nietzsche The Will to Power 261 and Thus Spoke Zarathustra 67. 69 . Joseph, Reynolds, and Woodward The Continuum Companion to Existentialism 8. 70 . Davis “Existentialism and Literature” 138–140. 2 Max Stirner and Loving Egoistically 1 . From Goethe’s play Vanitas! Vanitatum Vanitas : “Ich hab’ Mein’ Sach’ auf Nichts gestellt”, which literally translates as: “I have set my affair on nothing” (Stirner The Ego and His Own 3, 366). 2 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 10. 3 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 296–297. 4 . For example, Welsh Max Stirner’s dialectical egoism: a new interpretation 4. 5 . For example, R.W.K. Paterson argues that the existential thinkers either ignored or did not recognize the similarities ( The Nihilistic Egoist: Max Stirner 170–171). Similarly, John Welsh is surprised that the existential thinkers do not acknowledge Stirner, even though he ultimately dismisses similarities as superficial ( Max Stirner’s dialectical egoism: a new interpretation 24). 6 . Many authors have identified theoretical links. For example, Carroll Break-Out from the Crystal Palace , Clark Max Stirner’s Egoism , Paterson The Nihilistic Egoist: Max Stirner , and Welsh Max Stirner’s dialectical egoism: a new interpre- tation . According to Herbert Read, “Stirner is one of the most existentialist of all past philosophers, and whole pages of The Ego and His Own read like anticipations of Sartre” ( Anarchy and Order 165). 7 . For example, Stepelevich “Max Stirner as Hegelian” 604 and Löwith From Hegel to Nietzsche 103. 8 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 292–293. 9 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 311. 10 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 324. 11 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 236–237. 12 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 190. 13 . Stirner Kleinere Schriften und seine Entgegnungen auf die Kritik seines Werkes “Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum” aus den Jahren 1842–1848 414. 14 . John Clark, for example, criticizes Stirner for neglecting communal values ( Max Stirner’s Egoism 97). 15 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 291. 16 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 209. 17 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 361. 18 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 5. 19 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 358. 20 . Camus L’Homme révolté 87. Notes 181 21 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 169. 22 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 251. 23 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 60, 76. 24 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 164. 25 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 158. 26 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 157. 27 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 185. 28 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 358. 29 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 37. 30 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 5. 31 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 336. 32 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 154. 33 . Camus L’Homme révolté 84–88. 34 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 359. 35 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 164. 36 . For example, Hartmann Philosophy of the Unconscious 97, Clark Max Stirner’s Egoism 31–32, and Camus L’Homme révolté 87. 37 . Stirner Kleinere Schriften und seine Entgegnungen auf die Kritik seines Werkes “Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum” aus den Jahren 1842–1848 348. 38 . Sartre Being and Nothingness 511. 39 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 163. 40 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 13. 41 . Stirner Kleinere Schriften und seine Entgegnungen auf die Kritik seines Werkes “Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum” aus den Jahren 1842–1848 357. 42 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 13. 43 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 295–296. 44 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 315. 45 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 319–320. 46 . Stirner Kleinere Schriften und seine Entgegnungen auf die Kritik seines Werkes “Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum” aus den Jahren 1842–1848 373–374. 47 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 291. 48 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 170–171. 49 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 292. 50 . Stirner Kleinere Schriften und seine Entgegnungen auf die Kritik seines Werkes “Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum” aus den Jahren 1842–1848 375. 51 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 290. 52 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 291. 53 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 291–292. 54 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 293–294. 55 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 290. 56 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 290. 57 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 295. 58 . Stirner The Ego and His Own 164.
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