 | Friendship Reconsidered: What It Means and How It Matters to Politics Subjects: Political science -- Philosophy; International relations -- Philosophy; Friendship -- Political aspects; Interpersonal relations -- Political aspects; Digeser contends that our rich and varied practices of friendship multiply and moderate connections to politics. Along the way, she sets forth a series of ideals that appreciates friendship's many forms and its dynamic relationship to individuality, citizenship, political and legal institutions, and international relations. P. E. Digeser is professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Our Politics, Our Selves? Liberalism, Identity, and Harm (1995) and Political Forgiveness (2001), and the editor of Richard Flathman: Situated Concepts, Virtuosity Liberalism, and Opalescent Individuality (2016). |
