Friendship

The Future of an Ancient Gift

Claudia Baracchi (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

219 Seiten

2023
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-06735-7 (ISBN)

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In Friendship, Italian philosopher Claudia Baracchi explores the philosophical underpinnings of friendship. Tackling the issue of friendship in the era of Facebook and online social networks requires courage and even a certain impertinence. The friendship relationship involves trust, fidelity, and availability for profound sharing. Sociologists assure us this attitude was never more improbable than in our time of dramatic anthropological reconfiguration. Research on friendship cannot therefore ignore ancient thought: with unparalleled depth, Friendship examines the broader implications of relationship, both emotional and political.

Today, the grand socio-political structures of the world are trembling. The hold of valued paradigms that traditionally positioned individuals, determined their destinies, and assigned them their roles and reciprocal responsibilities is becoming uncertain. In these many global shifts, previously unforeseen possibilities for individual and collective becoming are unleashed. Perhaps friendship has to do with worlds that are not: that are not yet, and that should be desired all the more. Focusing on the works of Aristotle, Baracchi explores ancient reflections on friendship, in the belief that they have much to teach us about our relationships in the present day.

Claudia Baracchi is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca. She is the author of Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic (2002), Ethics as First Philosophy (2008), Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle (editor, 2014), L'architettura dell'umano. Aristotele e l'etica come filosofia prima (2014), Il cosmo della Bildung (with R. Rizzi, 2016). She is a practicing analyst in Milano.

Introduction: Thoughts on the Threshold
1. The Eyes of Friendship
2. The Cosmos That I Am
3. The Friendship between Us
4. The Friends of Socrates
5. Philosophers' Friendship
6. On Enmity
7. Friendship and Politics
8. Friendship and Nature
9. Sensing-With
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Continental Thought
Übersetzer	Elena Bartolini, Catherine Fullarton
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	0-253-06735-9 / 0253067359
ISBN-13	978-0-253-06735-7 / 9780253067357
Zustand	Neuware