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The Promise of Friendship: Fidelity within Finitude

The Promise of Friendship: Fidelity within Finitude

Horton, Sarah

Hardcover

Series: Suny Contemporary Continental Philosophy

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 1438495153
ISBN13: 9781438495156
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Nov 1 2023
Pages: 223
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Argues that friendship is the gift of a world that is not one's own and that transforms one's world in unforeseeable ways.

The Promise of Friendship investigates what makes friendship possible and good for human beings. In dialogue with authors ranging from Aristotle and Montaigne to Proust, Levinas, and Derrida, Sarah Horton argues that friendship is suited to our finitude-that is, to the limits within which human beings live-and proposes a novel understanding of friendship as translation: friends translate the world for each other so that each one experiences the world not as the other does but in light of the friend's always-unknowable experience. The very distance between friends that makes it impossible for them to know each other wholly also makes it possible for them to be transformed by friendship. Friendship, then, is possible and good for those who love precisely that they can never wholly know the friend. Friendship is a profound, mutual self-giving that highlights the irreplaceability of each person, fundamentally shapes the self, and is one of the greatest joys of human existence.

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