1st Edition
Friendship: Philosophical Explorations
List of Contributors
Introduction R. Lanier Anderson, Andrew Huddleston, and Jessica Moss
1. Socratic Friendships Voula Tsouna
2. Knowing Friends Mary Margaret McCabe
3. Philosophical Dogs: Plato on Knowledge and Friendship Jessica Moss
4. Friendship, Masculinity, and the Barbarian in Plato’s Laws Josh Wilburn
5. Did Montaigne Revolutionize the Conception of Friendship? Desan versus Nehamas R. Lanier Anderson
6. Equal Mutual Love and Respect: Kant on Friendship Paul Guyer
7. Friendship, Beauty, Judgment David Hills
8. Philosophy as Friendship: The Romantic Notion of Symphilosophie Timothy Stoll
9. On Frenemies: Nietzsche, Nehamas, and the Darker Side of Friendship Anthony Cross
10. Nietzschean Frenemies and Their Role in His Project of Self-Creation Ken Gemes and Mark Higgins
11. Friendship and Over-Belief in Nehamas and James Rachel Cristy
12. Can a Dog Be a Human’s Best Friend? Thomas W. Laqueur
13. Truth and Authenticity in Stories About Ourselves Pamela Foa
14. Friendship and the Novel Andrew Huddleston
15. Brotherly Philia: From Aristotle to Zvyagintsev Pavlos Kontos
16. Portraying Friendship Philip Kitcher
17. The Promise of Friendship Bernard Reginster
18. Friendship, Difference, and Aesthetic Discourse Matthew Strohl
19. "Every Painting, if it’s Any Good, Is a Love Affair" Michael Smith
20. My Heart Went Boom Jennifer Whiting
21. Friendship, Love, Interpretation: Other Ways of Knowing? Alexander Nehamas.
Index
Biography
R. Lanier Anderson is Professor of Philosophy and J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor in Humanities at Stanford University. He is the author of The Poverty of Conceptual Truth (2015) and many articles on Kant, Nietzsche, and the neo-Kantian movement, as well as papers on Montaigne and topics in philosophy and literature. His book manuscript on Montaigne (Montaigne and the Life of Philosophy) is currently in the final stages of completion. He did his Ph.D. work (on Nietzsche) with Alexander Nehamas at the University of Pennsylvania, finishing in 1993.
Andrew Huddleston is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Before moving to Notre Dame, he taught at Exeter College, Oxford, Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Warwick. He is the author of Nietzsche on the Decadence and Flourishing of Culture (2019) and Art’s Highest Calling: The Religion of Art in a Secular Age (forthcoming), as well as a number of papers on aesthetics, ethics, and various aspects of post-Kantian European philosophy. He completed his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 2012, with a dissertation on Nietzsche under the supervision of Alexander Nehamas.
Jessica Moss is Professor of Philosophy at New York University. She has also taught at the University of Pittsburgh, and Balliol College, Oxford. She is the author of Aristotle on the Apparent Good: Perception, Phantasia, Thought, and Desire (2012) and Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming (2021), as well as numerous articles on Ancient Greek epistemology, ethics, and moral psychology. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University in 2004, writing a dissertation on Plato’s Gorgias under the supervision of Alexander Nehamas.
