 Susman’s book presents a critical intervention that shows that love is not just a fundamental, formative force in human life but deserves comprehensive theoretical attention. In making love the subject of, and prism for, philosophical exploration, Susman reimagines philosophical discourse as a more inclusive practice of thinking which opens direct lines of inquiry into the exigencies and existential sensibilities of the time. Inspired by the new forms of philosophical investigations initiated by Simmel and Henri Bergson, whose German translation of Introduction to Metaphysics by Susman was published in 1909 by arrangement of Simmel, Susman argues the exploration of the question of the status of women and gender must be metaphysically central to, or constitutive of, a philosophy that wishes to live up to the claim of inclusive universalism.