“…A sparkling mixture of learning, humor, and style, Mirror, Mirror examines what great thinkers have said about self-love - from Aristotle, Cicero, and Erasmus to Rousseau, Adam Smith, Kant, and Iris Murdoch. …”

“…This volume collects Wolf's most important essays on the topics of morality, love, and meaning, ranging from her classic essay "Moral Saints" to her most recent "The Importance of Love." …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Prologue: String without a kite -- Just a zit -- Bring your own chair -- Love in the afternoon -- Best of times -- Indeterminate focal abnormality -- Elephant in the room -- Overtaken -- Angels come calling-- Dancing in the dark -- Joke's over, you can come back now -- Epilogue: Forever Janetized…”

“…Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love leads to the conclusion that love of the natural world is an intrinsic element of faith in God and that far from being an add-on, ecological care is at the center of moral life. …”

“…That feeling for transience―reflected in Impressionism’s emphasis on fugitive light, shifting seasons, glimpsed street scenes, and the impermanence of all things―became the movement’s great contribution to the history of art.At the heart of it all is a love story; that of Manet, by all accounts the father of Impressionism, and Morisot, the only woman to play a central role in the movement from the start. …”