Love and Friendship: Rethinking Politics and Affection in Modern Times

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Eduardo A. Velásquez
Lexington Books, 2003 - 637 páginas
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 thoughtful and engaging piece proves the depth of the intimate relationship between psychology and political life.
 

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On Socrates Speech in Platos Symposium
1
Hunting Together or Philosophizing Together Friendship and Eros in Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics
37
Michel de Montaigne and His Imaginary Friend
61
Merry Wars and General Incivility Wit Love and Verbal Warfare in Shakespeares Much Ado About Nothing and Austens Pride and Prejudice
87
Godolphin and the Whale Friendship and the Framing of Hobbes Leviathan
119
Locke and the Problem of Friendship in Modern Liberalism
139
Shaftesburys Liberal Enthusiasm
161
Dangerous Liaisons The Relation of Love and Liberty in Rousseau
183
Self Other and Liberty The Superiority of Women in Tocquevilles Democracy in America
339
Two Friendships Schillers Don Karlos and Letters on Don Karlos
377
The Politics of Love and Friendship 1984 and Brave New World
425
Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex The Promises and the Problems of the Self and Society
479
God Is Love or Love Is God? Denis de Rougemont and Allan Bloom on the Grounds and Goals of Love
501
Marital Friendship and the New Darwinian Political Science
533
Derrida and Friendship
549
Where the Wild Things Are ReCreation Fall Re and Insurrection in Chuck Palahniuks Fight Club
575

A Particular Turn or Habit of the Imagination Adam Smith on Love Friendship and Philosophy
229
The Role of Friendship in the Political Thought of Edmund Burke
263
Abraham Agnes and Socrates Love and History in Kierkegaards Fear and Trembling
297
Index
617
About the Contributors
633
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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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