Books like The Reasons of Love by Harry G. Frankfurt

Erich Fromm examines love as a practiced art rather than a simple feeling, distinguishing types such as brotherly, motherly, erotic, self‑love, and love of God, and urging genuine care amid modern superficiality.

In this concise philosophical essay, Harry G. Frankfurt examines the nature of bullshit, contrasting it with lying, deception, and other forms of falsehood while offering insights into truthfulness and communication.

Liking and Loving explores how social psychology explains attraction, friendship, dating, and intergroup relations, linking laboratory findings to everyday relationships.

A General Theory of Love explains how deep, silent connections between our nervous systems shape our emotions, relationships, health, and even social behavior.

What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword to this volume, "how incorrigibly stiff philosophy is when it undertakes to lay its icy fingers on the frilled and beating wings of the butterfly of love." Love, elusive and philosophically intractable as it is, has long fascinated philosophers. In this collection of classic and modern writings on the topic of erotic love, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins have chosen excerpts from the great philosophical texts and combined them with the most exciting new work of philosophers writing today. The result is a broadly conceived, comprehensive, and important work, nearly as stimulating and provocative as love itself. It examines the mysteries of erotic love from a variety of philosophical perspectives and provides an impressive display of the wisdom that the world's best thinkers have brought, and continue to bring, to the study of love. "Stunning! This brilliant interdisciplinary collection is as provocative, enchanting, and richly rewarding as its topic. Unrivaled in scope and richness, blending classic and contemporary readings on love, here is a wellspring of insights for scholars, students, and general readers alike."—Mike W. Martin, author of Self-Deception and Morality.

Positive Psychology of Love unites research on close relationships—romantic love, friendship, attachment, and more—with the principles of positive psychology to explore how intimate bonds enhance personal well‑being, health, and happiness.