SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
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SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Fidelity within Finitude

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SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Fidelity within Finitude

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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 finitudeā€”that is, to the limits within which human beings liveā€”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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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781438495170
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Phenomenology in Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction: Can One Write of Friendship?
  8. Chapter 1 At the Origins of Friendship: Initial Displacements
  9. Chapter 2 The Ethical Challenge of Friendship
  10. Chapter 3 Within Finitude, Bearing the Infinite
  11. Chapter 4 The Writing of Friendship: Reading ProustĀ’s In Search of Lost Time
  12. Chapter 5 Fidelity in the Dark: On Presence and Knowledge
  13. Chapter 6 The Creation of Impossible Friendship
  14. Conclusion: Risking Friendship in the Twenty-First Century
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Back Cover