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Friendship in Politics - Theorizing Amity in and between States (Paperback)
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Friendship in Politics - Theorizing Amity in and between States (Paperback)
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Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of
Social and Political Philosophy, this volume throws light on the
place of friendship in politics by connecting theoretical questions
to empirical answers. Today, friendship and politics are most
commonly viewed as distinct and mutually opposed concerns. Politics
tends to be seen as general and impersonal, to do with power and
hierarchy. Friendship, by contrast, is conceived as particular and
intimate, relating to equality and fraternity. Ancient Greek and
Roman thought tended to bring the two together, locating friendship
as the moral foundation of the political. But is this view sound?
Ought not Friendship to be dismissed by moderns as primitive,
inefficient, nepotistic (Freud)? Or ought it to be promoted as a
vital moral constraint on power and the consuming egotism of rulers
(Plutarch and others)? The contributors seek to answer these
questions, directly and indirectly, by supplying: analyses of the
concept critical reconstructions of some crucial modern accounts
(Kierkegaard, Arendt and Schmitt) concrete accounts of the actual
play of friendship both within and between states.
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