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Friendship (Paperback)
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Friendship (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 710
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After the culture wars of the past two decades, a turn toward a
more constructive and convivial social analysis and critique is
occurring today. Along with such themes as cosmopolitanism and
ethical politics, the idea of friendship has emerged as central to
this new constructivism. Lying at the intersections of ethics and
politics as well as eroticism and companionship, friendship
involves the personal and the public, sacrifice and joy, need and
choice, spirit and body. While giving pleasure, it can also make
great moral demands on us all.
While friendship was often discussed by the ancients, moderns have
had much less to say on the topic. Leading us into a dialogue with
the ancients, the contributors offer a series of far-reaching
encounters. Nietzsche debates the meaning of friendship with
Socrates; Horatio fulfills the ancient desideratum of the true
friend in telling Hamlet's story; and philia becomes the core of a
radical ethic through a reconstruction of Marx's Epicurean ideals.
Friendship is also analyzed as the model of a non-narcissistic
psychology, on the one hand, and of a mafia of idealists--the
French Resistance--on the other. Moreover, milieus of friendship
are revealed as a unique crucible of creativity for the
Benjamin-Bloch cohort in 1920s southern Italy, for Wittgenstein and
his Cambridge followers in the 1930s, and for American jazz
musicians of the 1950s.Contributors. Dwight Allman, Fabio
Ciaramelli, Marios Constantinou, John Ely, Agnes Heller, Clara
Gibson Maxwell (with Ornette Coleman), Peter Murphy, Louis Ruprecht
Jr., Jean-Pierre Vernant
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