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Book SynopsisThere has been a marked revival of interest among philosophers in the topic of friendship. This collection of fifteen essays presents an admirable range of the diverse contemporary approaches to friendship within philosophy.
Trade ReviewA most welcome and timely presentation of significant contributions to this flourishing field of philosophical discourse. Badhwar's introduction is of special value in briefly outlining the history of philosophical speculation on friendship and suggesting more plausible reasons for the neglect of a theme in modern philosophy.
* Australasian Journal of Philosophy *
The anthology gathers a variety of essays—mostly by philosophers—grouped under three general rubrics: 1) the nature of friendship; 2) the attempts by different moral theories (Aristotelian, Christian, Kantian, consequentialist) to account for the experience of friendship; and 3) friendship as a means for exploring larger social and political issues.... All are worthwhile. Some, in particular, will repay careful study.
* Christian Century *
There is much excellent material here for seminar discussion, and the book will find a place in the ethics classroom as well as on the moral philosopher's bookshelf.
* Canadian Review of Comparative Literature *
Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Nature and Significance of Friendship
by Neera Kapur BadhwarPART I. FRIENDSHIP: GENERAL DISCUSSIONS1. Friendship—The Least Necessary Love
by C. S. Lewis2. Friendship and Other Loves
by Laurence Thomas3. Love and Psychological Visibility
by Nathaniel Branden4. The Historicity of Psychological Attitudes: Love Is Not Love Which Alters Not When It Alteration Finds
by Amelie O. RortyPART II. FRIENDSHIP AND ETHICS5. Aristotle on the Shared Life
by Nancy Sherman6. The Problem of Total Devotion
by Robert M. Adams7. Kant on Friendship
by H. J. Paton8. Personal Love and Kantian Ethics in Effi Briest
by Julia Annas9. Was Effi Briest a Victim of Kantian Morality?
by Marcia Baron10. Friendship as a Moral Phenomenon
by Lawrence Blum11. Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality
by Peter Railton12. Values and Purposes: The Limits of Teleology and the Ends of Friendship
by Michael StockerPART III. FRIENDSHIP, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS13. Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women
by Mary Lyndon Shanley14. Feminism and Modern Friendship: Dislocating the Community
by Marilyn Friedman15. Political Animals and Civic Friendship
by John M. CooperIndex
