We are haunted, Samuel Kimbriel suggests, by a habit of isolation
buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices of understanding
and relating to the world. In this volume he works through the
complexities of this disposition to contest its place within
contemporary philosophical thought and practice. He focuses on the
human activity of friendship. Chapters one and two examine
friendship to unearth the contours of this habit towards isolation
and to reveal certain ills that have long attended it. Chapters
three through seven place these isolated ways of relating to the
world into critical dialogue with the tradition of late-antique and
early-medieval Johannine Christianity, in which intimacy and
understanding go hand in hand. This tradition drew the human
activities of friendship and enquiry into such unity that
understanding itself became a kind of communion. Kimbriel endorses
a return to an antique and particularly Christian philosophical
habit-"the befriending of wisdom."
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