Love and friendship : rethinking politics and affection in modern times / edited by Eduardo A. Velásquez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Velásquez, Eduardo A., 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love in literature.

Friendship in literature.

Politics in literature.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 637 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]

Contents:

Introduction: Eros, Modernity, and Democratic Affection / Eduardo A. Velasquez xi

1. On Socrates' Speech in Plato's Symposium / Steven Berg 1

2. Hunting Together or Philosophizing Together: Friendship and Eros in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics / Ronna Burger 37

3. Michel de Montaigne and His Imaginary Friend / David Lewis Schaefer 61

4. Merry Wars and General Incivility: Wit, Love, and Verbal Warfare in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Austen's Pride and Prejudice / Inger Sigrun Brodey 87

5. Godolphin and the Whale: Friendship and the Framing of Hobbes' Leviathan / John T. Scott 119

6. Locke and the Problem of Friendship in Modern Liberalism / Scott Yenor 139

7. Shaftesbury's Liberal Enthusiasm / Mark Lloyd 161

8. Dangerous Liaisons: The Relation of Love and Liberty in Rousseau / Pamela K. Jensen 183

9. "A Particular Turn or Habit of the Imagination": Adam Smith on Love, Friendship, and Philosophy / Lauren Brubaker 229

10. The Role of Friendship in the Political Thought of Edmund Burke / David Womersley 263

11. Abraham, Agnes, and Socrates: Love and History in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling / Ann Ward 297

12. Self, Other, and Liberty: The Superiority of Women in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / Alice Behnegar 339

13. Two Friendships: Schiller's Don Karlos and Letters on Don Karlos / Fred Baumann 377

14. The Politics of Love and Friendship: 1984 and Brave New World / Corey Abel 425

15. Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: The Promises and the Problems of the Self and Society / Mark Kremer 479

16. God Is Love, or Love Is God? Denis de Rougemont and Allan Bloom on the Grounds and Goals of Love / Germaine Paulo Walsh 501

17. Marital Friendship and the New Darwinian Political Science / Carson Holloway 533

18. Derrida and Friendship / Fred Dallmayr 549

19. 'Where the Wild Things Are': Re-Creation, Fall, Re- and In-surrection in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club / Eduardo A. Velasquez 575.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0739101226

OCLC:

51506162