Other Selves: Philosophers on Friendship

Book Overview

"Friendship, that pervasive, everyday, and subtle matter of our most intimate personal life, has rarely been accorded its due. Michael Pakaluk has retrieved the thoughts of our greatest thinkers on... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872201139
• ISBN13: 9780872201132
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Wonderful Reading that opens up friendship to reflection!

Here in this book are collected some of the most significant essays and dialogues on the nature of friendship ever written. The book spans a vast period of time and so multiple historical and cultural contexts (though Western). One can't read this without seeing how discourse on friendship can open up the nature of our relationships to worthwhile reflection!