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Love and Friendship
Eduardo A. . Ed(S): Velasquez
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Description for Love and Friendship
Hardback. These collected essays demonstrate that compelling and illuminating discussions of love and friendship do not fall to psychologists alone, but rightly belong among the major thinkers in the history of political philosophy. Editor(s): Velasquez, Eduardo A. Num Pages: 656 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HP; JFSJ; JHBK; JMM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 47. Weight in Grams: 1144.
Love and Friendship gathers the reflections of some of today's most preeminent political scientists, philosophers, historians, and students of literature and religion in an investigation of the most influential accounts of love and friendship in Western history. The collection begins with a discussion of classical philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, moves through a wide array of modern philosophers—among them Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau—and concludes with contemporary, postmodern accounts of love and friendship. Taken together, the essays provide an unprecedented exploration of the most compelling and sovereign human affections and associations. Eduardo Velásquez's marvelous, ambitious project succeeds, as each ... Read more
Love and Friendship gathers the reflections of some of today's most preeminent political scientists, philosophers, historians, and students of literature and religion in an investigation of the most influential accounts of love and friendship in Western history. The collection begins with a discussion of classical philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, moves through a wide array of modern philosophers—among them Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau—and concludes with contemporary, postmodern accounts of love and friendship. Taken together, the essays provide an unprecedented exploration of the most compelling and sovereign human affections and associations. Eduardo Velásquez's marvelous, ambitious project succeeds, as each ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
656
Condition
New
Number of Pages
656
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739101223
SKU
V9780739101223
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About Eduardo A. . Ed(S): Velasquez
Eduardo A. Velásquez is Associate Professor of Politics at Washington and Lee University. He is editor of Nature, Woman, and the Art of Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
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