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Friendship
The Future of an Ancient Gift
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.
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.
About the Authors
Claudia Baracchi is Professor of Moral Philosophy at the Università di Milano-Bicocca. She is the author of various books including Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic, Aristole's Ethics as First Philosophy, and editor of Bloomsbury Companion to Aristotle. She is a practicing analyst in Milano.
Reviews
"Friendship promises to positively alter the landscape of Platonic and Aristotelian studies, and Ancient Philosophy more broadly, as Dr. Baracchi gives us a fresh and intellectually fecund approach to ancient texts such as the Nicomachean Ethics, the Timaeus, and the Republic, among others."—Ryan Drake, Fairfield University
Indiana University Press | |
Studies in Continental Thought | |
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Hardback | |
September 5, 2023 | |
9780253067340 | |
English | |
Italian | |
160 | |
8.50 Inches (US) | |
5.50 Inches (US) | |
$80.00 USD, £62.00 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Paperback / softback | |
September 5, 2023 | |
9780253067357 | |
English | |
Italian | |
160 | |
8.50 Inches (US) | |
5.50 Inches (US) | |
$30.00 USD, £23.00 GBP | |
v2.1 Reference | |
Other Titles by Claudia Baracchi
Plato's Animals
edited by Jeremy Bell, Michael Naas, with contributions by Christopher Long, Claudia Baracchi, Sara Brill, S. Montgomery Ewegen, Francisco Gonzalez, H. Peter Steeves, Drew A. Hyland, David Farrell Krell, Marina McCoy, Holly Moore
May 2015
- Indiana University Press
$80.00 USD
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$32.00 USD
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Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
Claudia Baracchi
Jan 2002
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$24.95 USD
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Introduction to Philosophy
Martin Heidegger, translated by William McNeill
Apr 2024
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Human Life in Motion
Francisco J. Gonzalez
Mar 2024
- Indiana University Press
$50.00 USD
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Through the Eyes of Descartes
Cecilia Sjöholm, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback
Feb 2024
- Indiana University Press
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