Friendship: Philosophical Explorations
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Friendship: Philosophical Explorations

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Friendship: Philosophical Explorations

About this book

Friendship has been a central topic for philosophical reflection ever since philosophy itself was born in the circle of friends who gathered around Socrates to follow his probing examinations of how we should live.

In this outstanding collection, which takes its lead from the work of Alexander Nehamas, a distinguished roster of contributors examines the many dimensions of the philosophy of friendship. They broaden the discussion beyond common questions about friendship obligations and their relation to the claims of morality to explore a much wider set of issues, including:

  • friendship in the context of Plato, Aristotle, Montaigne, Kant, Goethe, William James, and Nietzsche
  • the darker side of friendship and "frenemies"
  • friendship in literature and film, including André Aciman's Call Me by Your Name and Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return
  • dogs and friendship
  • friendship and aesthetic judgment
  • Nehamas's own distinctive analogy between the value of friendship and the value of beauty.

Friendship: Philosophical Explorations will be of interest to those in philosophy studying and researching ethics and aesthetics, as well as students and scholars in related disciplines such as literature and film.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2026
eBook ISBN
9781040683354
Topic
Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Socratic Friendships
  10. 2 Knowing Friends
  11. 3 Philosophical Dogs: Plato on Knowledge and Friendship
  12. 4 Friendship, Masculinity, and the Barbarian in Plato's Laws
  13. 5 Did Montaigne Revolutionize the Conception of Friendship? Desan versus Nehamas
  14. 6 Equal Mutual Love and Respect: Kant on Friendship
  15. 7 Friendship, Beauty, Judgment
  16. 8 Philosophy as Friendship: The Romantic Notion of Symphilosophie
  17. 9 On Frenemies: Nietzsche, Nehamas, and the Darker Side of Friendship
  18. 10 Nietzschean Frenemies and Their Role in His Project of Self-Creation
  19. 11 Friendship and Over-Belief in Nehamas and James
  20. 12 Can a Dog Be a Human's Best Friend?
  21. 13 Truth and Authenticity in Stories About Ourselves
  22. 14 Friendship and the Novel
  23. 15 Brotherly Philia: From Aristotle to Zvyagintsev
  24. 16 Portraying Friendship
  25. 17 The Promise of Friendship
  26. 18 Friendship, Difference, and Aesthetic Discourse
  27. 19 “Every Painting, if it's Any Good, Is a Love Affair”
  28. 20 My Heart Went Boom
  29. 21 Friendship, Love, Interpretation: Other Ways of Knowing?
  30. Index

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