Love in Black Mirror

In William Irwin & David Kyle Johnson (eds.), Black Mirror and Philosophy. Wiley. pp. 301–310 (2020)
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Does anybody know what love is? This question, the title of a love song by the Motown singer Irma Thomas, echoes through the series Black Mirror. This chapter seeks to answer this question by studying how love, as defined by both Thomas Aquinas and Irma Thomas, appears and disappears in the universe of the show. We learn that most people don't know that love is the total giving of the self to another. But if they did know what love is, as a few characters in the show do, they'd be happier.

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9781119578291   9781119578260

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10.1002/9781119578291.ch27

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