1st Edition

Friendship in Politics Theorizing Amity in and between States

Edited By Preston King, Graham M. Smith Copyright 2007
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy , this volume throws light on the place of friendship in politics by connecting theoretical questions to empirical answers. Today, friendship and politics are most commonly viewed as distinct and mutually opposed concerns. Politics tends to be seen as general and impersonal, to do with power and... Read more

Acknowledgements

Preface: P. King & G. Smith

SECTION I:  ANALYSING FRIENDSHIP
Ch. 1: P. King. FRIENDSHIP IN POLITICS (University of East Anglia)
Ch. 2: E. van der Zweerde. FRIENDSHIP AND THE POLITICAL (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Ch. 3: D. Schwartz: EQUALITY AND FRIENDSHIP (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

SECTION II: FRIENDSHIP & THINKERS
Ch. 4:  G.M. Smith. KIERKEGAARD ON FRIENDSHIP (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
Ch. 5:  S. Nedimovic. ARENDT ON FRIENDSHIP (European University Institute)
Ch. 6:  G. Slomp. SCHMITT ON FRIENDSHIP & ENMITY (St. Andrews, United Kingdom)

SECTION III: FRIENDSHIP WITHIN NATIONS
Ch. 7: Nina  Witoszek: FRIENDSHIP AND REVOLUTION
Ch. 8: Sibyl Schwarzenbach: CIVIC FRIENDSHIP (City University of New York, USA)

SECTION IV. FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN NATIONS
Ch. 9: Andrea Oelsner: FRIENDSHIP & THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
Ch. 10: Antoine Vion: INTERNATIONAL FRIENDSHIP (Les Universités à Aix en Provence)

Biography

Preston King, a political philosopher, has held chairs at the University of Nairobi, the University of New South Wales (Sydney), and Lancaster University. He is a visiting professor in the Leadership Center at Morehouse College (Atlanta), and in the philosophy department at the University of East Anglia (UK). He is the author of such books as Fear of Power, The Ideology of Order, Toleration, Federalism and Federation, along with Thinking Past A Problem: Essays on the History of Ideas (2000). He is the founder and co-editor of CRISPP (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy). With H. Devere, he co-edited (2000) The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity.