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Friendship Reconsidered - What It Means and How It Matters to Politics (Hardcover)
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Friendship Reconsidered - What It Means and How It Matters to Politics (Hardcover)
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In the history of Western thought, friendship's relationship to
politics is checkered. Friendship was seen as key to understanding
political life in the ancient world, but it was then ignored for
centuries. Today, friendship has again become a desirable framework
for political interaction. In Friendship Reconsidered, P. E.
Digeser contends that our rich and varied practices of friendship
multiply and moderate connections to politics. Along the way, she
sets forth a series of ideals that appreciates friendship's many
forms and its dynamic relationship to individuality, citizenship,
political and legal institutions, and international relations.
Digeser argues that, as a set of practices bearing a family
resemblance to one another, friendship calls our attention to the
importance of norms of friendly action and the mutual recognition
of motive. Focusing on these attributes clarifies the place of
self-interest and duty in friendship and points to its
compatibility with the pursuit of individuality. She shows how
friendship can provide islands of stability in a sea of
citizen-strangers and, in a delegitimized political environment, a
bridge between differences. She also explores how political and
legal institutions can both undermine and promote friendship.
Digeser then looks to the positive potential of international
friendships, in which states mutually strive to protect the just
character of one another's institutions and policies. Friendship's
repertoire of motives and manifestations complicates its
relationship to politics, Digeser concludes, but it can help us
realize the limits and possibilities for generating new
opportunities for cooperation.
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