The Promise of Friendship
Fidelity within Finitude
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2023
223 pages
978-1-4384-9517-0 (ISBN)
Description
Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforseeable ways.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
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ISBN-13
978-1-4384-9517-0 (9781438495170)
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Sarah Horton is pursuing research in philosophy at the Institut catholique de Paris,
Content
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Can One Write of Friendship?
1. At the Origins of Friendship: Initial Displacements
2. The Ethical Challenge of Friendship
3. Within Finitude, Bearing the Infinite
4. The Writing of Friendship: Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time
5. Fidelity in the Dark: On Presence and Knowledge
6. The Creation of Impossible Friendship
Conclusion: Risking Friendship in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Introduction: Can One Write of Friendship?
1. At the Origins of Friendship: Initial Displacements
2. The Ethical Challenge of Friendship
3. Within Finitude, Bearing the Infinite
4. The Writing of Friendship: Reading Proust's In Search of Lost Time
5. Fidelity in the Dark: On Presence and Knowledge
6. The Creation of Impossible Friendship
Conclusion: Risking Friendship in the Twenty-First Century
Notes
Bibliography
Index
