Friendship Reconsidered: What It Means and How It Matters to Politics by P.E. Di

Description: Friendship Reconsidered by P.E. Digeser Digeser contends that our rich and varied practices of friendship multiply and moderate connections to politics. Along the way, she sets forth a series of ideals that appreciates friendships many forms and its dynamic relationship to individuality, citizenship, political and legal institutions, and international relations. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In the history of Western thought, friendships relationship to politics is checkered. Friendship was seen as key to understanding political life in the ancient world, but it was then ignored for centuries. Today, friendship has again become a desirable framework for political interaction. In Friendship Reconsidered, P. E. Digeser contends that our rich and varied practices of friendship multiply and moderate connections to politics. Along the way, she sets forth a series of ideals that appreciates friendships many forms and its dynamic relationship to individuality, citizenship, political and legal institutions, and international relations. Digeser argues that, as a set of practices bearing a family resemblance to one another, friendship calls our attention to the importance of norms of friendly action and the mutual recognition of motive. Focusing on these attributes clarifies the place of self-interest and duty in friendship and points to its compatibility with the pursuit of individuality. She shows how friendship can provide islands of stability in a sea of citizen-strangers and, in a delegitimized political environment, a bridge between differences. She also explores how political and legal institutions can both undermine and promote friendship. Digeser then looks to the positive potential of international friendships, in which states mutually strive to protect the just character of one anothers institutions and policies. Friendships repertoire of motives and manifestations complicates its relationship to politics, Digeser concludes, but it can help us realize the limits and possibilities for generating new opportunities for cooperation. Author Biography P. E. Digeser is professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Our Politics, Our Selves? Liberalism, Identity, and Harm (1995) and Political Forgiveness (2001), and the editor of Richard Flathman: Situated Concepts, Virtuosity Liberalism, and Opalescent Individuality (2016). Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 1. Friendship as a Family of Practices 2. Motivations, Actions, and the Value of Friendship 3. Self-Interest, Duty, and Friendship 4. Friendship and Individuality Part 2 5. Civic Friendship 6. Friendship During Dark Times 7. Institutions for and Against Friendship Part 3 8. Friendship and Friend in an International Context 9. International Friendships of Character 10. The Politics of International Friendships Notes Bibliography Index Review This engaging work impressively brings together discussions about friendship in political philosophy, ethics, and international relations to create a rich and stimulating conversation about the nature, role, and value of friendship in political life. -- Catherine Lu, McGill University Friendship Reconsidered is a long-awaited, comprehensive analysis of the political theory on friendship. Academically sophisticated, it is at the same time highly accessible to a lay reader. P. E. Digeser builds on Michael Oakeshotts concept of social practice to suggest that we look at friendship, not as easily definable but as a family of practices. She argues her view coherently and systematically, subjecting her argument to all the objections that could be raised and carefully refuting them in a clear yet un-dogmatic way. This is an original and important addition to the political theory on friendship. -- Heather Devere, coeditor of AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies Can friendship be a high ideal of liberalism? How should it fit into politics? And how can it function between states? This carefully argued and elegant book deftly guides us through these questions with great subtlety, reminding us that practices of friendship vary, even as they share a family resemblance. Digesers compelling ideal of friendship binds people while fostering their individuality and opens up attractive possibilities for politics within and between states. -- Farid Abdel-Nour, San Diego State University This work is a valuable addition to political science collections in most college and university libraries... Highly recommended. CHOICE Review Quote This work is a valuable addition to political science collections in most college and university libraries.... Highly recommended. Details ISBN0231174349 Publisher Columbia University Press Year 2016 ISBN-10 0231174349 ISBN-13 9780231174343 Format Hardcover Imprint Columbia University Press Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 320.01 Short Title FRIENDSHIP RECONSIDERED Language English Media Book Pages 392 Publication Date 2016-09-06 Subtitle What It Means and How It Matters to Politics Author P.E. Digeser Translated from English UK Release Date 2016-09-06 AU Release Date 2016-09-06 NZ Release Date 2016-09-06 US Release Date 2016-09-06 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:161834710;

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