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Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought

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Description for Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought Paperback. A collection of essays which invite readers to consider how their political principles become manifest in their private lives. It considers treatments of friendship by Christian thinkers such as Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, and Calvin. It also addresses the postmodern emphasis on fragmentation and the dynamics of power within the modern state. Editor(s): Heyking, John von; Avramenko, Richard. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 542.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268043704
SKU
V9780268043704
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About
John von Heyking is associate professor of political science at the University of Lethbridge. He is the author and co-editor of a number of books, including Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World.

Reviews for Friendship and Politics: Essays in Political Thought
“This is an outstanding anthology in every respect. Friendship and Politics brings into focus a topic that lies at the heart of the political, even while it has not always garnered the attention it deserves. Friendship, the contributors demonstrate, is an indispensable concept for the analysis of the bonds of political association. The case is most convincingly made by drawing ... Read more

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