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Throughout the history of Western political philosophy, the idea of friendship has occupied a central place in the conversation. It is only in the context of the modern era that friendship has lost its prominence. By retrieving the concept of friendship for philosophical investigation, these essays invite readers to consider how our political principles become manifest in our private lives. They provide a timely corrective to contemporary confusion plaguing this central experience of our public and our private life.

This volume assembles essays by well-known scholars who address contemporary concerns about community in the context of philosophical ideas about friendship. Part One includes essays on ancient philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, and Cicero. Part Two considers treatments of friendship by Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin, and Part Three continues with Thomas Hobbes, Montaigne, the American founders, and de Tocqueville. The volume concludes with two essays that address the postmodern emphasis on fragmentation and the dynamics of power within the modern state.

Contributors: John von Heyking, Richard Avramenko, James M. Rhodes, Stephen M. Salkever, Walter Nicgorski, Jeanne Heffernan Schindler, Thomas Heilke, Timothy Fuller, Travis D. Smith, George Carey, Joshua Mitchell, and Jürgen Gebhardt.


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Date de parution 01 mai 2008
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EAN13 9780268095505
Langue English
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Friendship&Politics
Friendship&Politics Essays in Political Thought
Edited by John von Heyking and Richard Avramenko
University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana
Copyright © 2008 by University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data
Friendship and politics : essays in political thought / edited by John von Heyking and Richard Avramenko. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN13: 9780268043704 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN10: 0268043701 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Political sciencePhilosophy. 2. FriendshipPolitical aspects. I. Heyking, John von. II. Avramenko, Richard. JA71.F65 2008 320.01dc22 2008010164
This book is printed on recycled paper.
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction: The Persistence of Friendship in Political Life John von Heyking and Richard Avramenko
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Ancient Perspectives
PlatonicPhiliaand Political Order James M. Rhodes
Taking Friendship Seriously: Aristotle on the Place(s) ofPhiliain Human Life Stephen Salkever
Cicero’s Distinctive Voice on Friendship:De Amicitia andDe Re Publica Walter Nicgorski
Christian Perspectives
The Luminous Path of Friendship: Augustine’s Account of Friendship and Political Order John von Heyking
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It Is Not Good for Man to Be Alone: Tocqueville on Friendship Joshua Mitchell
Hobbes on Getting By with Little Help from Friends Travis D. Smith
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Social Friendship in the Founding Era George Carey
Friendship in the Civic Order: A Reformation Absence Thomas Heilke
Plato and Montaigne: Ancient and Modern Ideas of Friendship Timothy Fuller
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Zarathustra and His Asinine Friends: Nietzsche and Taste as the Groundless Ground of Friendship Richard Avramenko
Index
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Contributors
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A Companionship ofCaritas:Friendship in St. Thomas Aquinas Jeanne Heffernan Schindler
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Friendship, Trust, and Political Order: A Critical Overview Jürgen Gebhardt
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III. Modern Perspectives
Contemporary Perspectives
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Acknowledgments
The editors wish to thank the Eric Voegelin Society and the Society of Catholic Social Scientists for each hosting a panel at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, where several contributors to this volume were able to present their ideas. As one of the members of the audience observed, these essays demonstrate how the topic of friendship enables academics to move beyond their respec tive “sects.” The editors also thank Barb Hodgson for her formatting and editorial work, and the editors of the University of Notre Dame Press for their support and assistance for this project.
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Introduction
The Persistence of Friendship in Political Life
John von Heyking and Richard Avramenko
Throughout the greater part of the history of political philosophy, friendship has occupied a central place in the conversation. If we draw on conventional historical distinctions, friendship perennially figured as the sine qua non of discussions among ancient and medieval political thinkers regarding good political order and the good human life. As Horst Hutter explains, up to the end of the Middle Ages the idea of friendship was at the core of political thinking: “Western political specu lation finds its origin in a system of thought in which the idea of friend ship is the major principle in terms of which political theory and 1 practice are described, explained, and analyzed.” It is only in the modern era that friendship has lost its prominence and been relegated to the backbenches of political philosophy. It simply has not been a central concern for political thinkers within the liberal tradition, or any other, in the past five hundred years or so.
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