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Friendship Reconsidered: What It Means and How It Matters to Politics
P. E. Digeser
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Hardback. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 262 x 31. Weight in Grams: 684.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231174343
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V9780231174343
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About P. E. Digeser
P. E. Digeser is professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Our Politics, Our Selves? Liberalism, Identity, and Harm (1995) and Political Forgiveness (2001), and the editor of Richard Flathman: Situated Concepts, Virtuosity Liberalism, and Opalescent Individuality (2016).
Reviews for Friendship Reconsidered: What It Means and How It Matters to Politics
This engaging work impressively brings together discussions about friendship in political philosophy, ethics, and international relations to create a rich and stimulating conversation about the nature, role, and value of friendship in political life.
Catherine Lu, McGill University Friendship Reconsidered is a long-awaited, comprehensive analysis of the political theory on friendship. Academically sophisticated, it is at the same time ... Read more
Catherine Lu, McGill University Friendship Reconsidered is a long-awaited, comprehensive analysis of the political theory on friendship. Academically sophisticated, it is at the same time ... Read more