«Nearly every page offers up new insight and the book as a whole is a truly impressive achievement. It makes a serious contribution to analytic philosophy while at the same time being highly readable.»

European Journal of Philosophy

«May's book represents a major contribution to our understanding of love. … The sense that May is striving single-handedly to dismantle some of society's most sacrosanct beliefs, together with the wonderful clarity of the writing, which is rigorous without ever feeling technical, and the strength of the original premise, make Love: A New Understanding compellingly readable. Excitingly new, yet immediately recognizable-that's the paradox at the very heart of love, and it is what Simon May has achieved.»

Los Angeles Review of Books

«Truly ambitious…an engaging and unique account of love.»

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

«May's general account of love as seeking ontological rootedness is profound and convincing. … [His] book offers one of the most significant philosophical accounts of the nature of love, which shows how through love we can become at home in the world.»

The Philosophical Quarterly

«May devotes a great deal of research to identify the meaning and the sense of love in the existence of human beings. In the last paragraph of the study he concludes modestly that discussing the issue is only auxiliary to experiencing it…in this lies May's book's greatest merit: to see it [love] as intrinsically human.»

Robert Zaborowski, Metapsychology Online Reviews