Love and Friendship Rethinking Politics and

These collected essays demonstrate that compelling and illuminating discussions of love and friendship do not fall to psychologists alone, but rightly belong among the major thinkers in the history of political philosophy.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: Eros, Modernity, and Democratic Affection	p. xi
On Socrates' Speech in Plato's Symposium	p. 1
Hunting Together or Philosophizing Together: Friendship and Eros in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics	p. 37
Michel de Montaigne and His Imaginary Friend	p. 61
Merry Wars and General Incivility: Wit, Love, and Verbal Warfare in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Austen's Pride and Prejudice	p. 87
Godolphin and the Whale: Friendship and the Framing of Hobbes' Leviathan	p. 119
Locke and the Problem of Friendship in Modern Liberalism	p. 139
Shaftesbury's Liberal Enthusiasm	p. 161
Dangerous Liaisons: The Relation of Love and Liberty in Rousseau	p. 183
"A Particular Turn or Habit of the Imagination": Adam Smith on Love, Friendship, and Philosophy	p. 229
The Role of Friendship in the Political Thought of Edmund Burke	p. 263
Abraham, Agnes, and Socrates: Love and History in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling	p. 297
Self, Other, and Liberty: The Superiority of Women in Tocqueville's Democracy in America	p. 339
Two Friendships: Schiller's Don Karlos and Letters on Don Karlos	p. 377
The Politics of Love and Friendship: 1984 and Brave New World	p. 425
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex: The Promises and the Problems of the Self and Society	p. 479
God Is Love, or Love Is God? Denis de Rougemont and Allan Bloom on the Grounds and Goals of Love	p. 501
Marital Friendship and the New Darwinian Political Science	p. 533
Derrida and Friendship	p. 549
'Where the Wild Things Are': Re-Creation, Fall, Re- and In-surrection in Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club	p. 575
Index	p. 617
About the Contributors	p. 633
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Love and Friendship Rethinking Politics and Affection in Modern Times

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