The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity

In antiquity, it was not only Aristotle who assumed the people are more to be understood in relation to one another than as individual or solitary constructs. This examination considers the changing attitudes to friendship since antiquity.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Preston King; Chapter 2 The Role of Friendship in Aristotle's Political Theory, Richard Mulgan; Chapter 3 Hume, Smith and Ferguson: Friendship in Commercial Society, Lisa Hill, Peter McCarthy; Chapter 4 Circles, Ladders and Stars: Nietzsche on Friendship, Ruth Abbey; Chapter 5 Martin Buber and the Ontological Crisis of Modern Man, Charles Rustin; Chapter 6 Derrida and Friendship, Fred Dallmayr; Chapter 7 The Virtue of Solitude and the Vicissitudes of Friendship, HorstHutter; Chapter 8 Reviving Greco-Roman Friendship: A Bibliographical Review, HeatherDevere;

About the author

Preston King, Heather Devere

Summary

This examination considers the changing attitudes to friendship since antiquity and notes that almost no major modern philosopher has expounded friendship as an ideal for society.

Product details

• Assisted by: Heather Devere (Editor), Devere Heather (Editor), Preston King (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.09.2000
• EAN: 9780714681184
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-8118-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Weight: 380 g
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Social groups, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social, group or collective psychology, Ethics and moral philosophy, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy, Social groups, communities and identities