Hobbes Against Friendship: The Modern Marginalisation of an Ancient Political Concept

ISBN-13: 9783030953171 / Angielski

Gabriella Slomp

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: In Search of the Hobbesian Friend

Chapter 3 Negative Friendship: Friend as Ally

Chapter 4 Positive Friendship: Friend as Partner for Business or Recreation.

Chapter 5: Normative Friendship: The Friend as Another Self

Chapter 6 Hobbes thinking Past Ancient Friendship

Chapter 7 Friendship After Hobbes: Going Forward with Equitable Peace.

O autorze

Gabriella Slomp is Professor of International Political Theory, University of St Andrews, UK. Former editor of Hobbes Studies, she is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory (2000); editor of Thomas Hobbes (2008);  co-editor (with R. Prokhovnik) of  International Political Theory after Hobbes (2011).  

Blurb

This book explores why and how Thomas  Hobbes – the 17th century founder of political science -- contributed to the modern marginalisation of ‘friendship’, a concept that stood in the foreground of ancient moral and political thought  and that is  currently undergoing a revival. The study shows that Hobbes did not question the occurrence of friendship; rather, he rejected friendship as an explanatory and normative principle of peace and cooperation. Hobbes’s stance was influential because it captured the spirit of modernity- its individualism, nominalism, practical scepticism, and materialism. Hobbes’s legacy has a bearing on contemporary debates about civic, international and global friendship.  

Gabriella Slomp is Professor of International Political Theory, University of St Andrews, UK. Former editor of Hobbes Studies, she is the author of Thomas Hobbes and the Political Philosophy of Glory (2000); editor of Thomas Hobbes (2008);  co-editor (with R. Prokhovnik) of  International Political Theory after Hobbes (2011).