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"Love and Friendship in the Western Tradition comprises a collection of essays written over a 25 year period by the late Rev. Professor James McEvoy on the theme of friendship. The book traces the genesis and development of philosophical treatments of friendship from Greek philosophy, through the Middle Ages, to modern and postmodern philosophy. The collection's three major concerns are: (1) the history of philosophical discussions of friendship; (2) the role of friendship in the cultivation of the philosophical life; (3) the marginalization of friendship as a theme for philosophical reflection and practice in the modern period. As the author was primarily a medievalist, a great deal of the focus of the essays is on the development of the theme of friendship in the Middle Ages (in the thought of Augustine, Aquinas, Aelred of Rievaulx, Henry of Ghent, Robert Grosseteste, etc.). However, this focus, while a value in itself, also serves to connect philosophical perspectives on friendship from before and after the middle ages. It connects to the time before inasmuch as much of the work done on friendship in the Middle Ages is anchored in interpretations of Aristotle and Plato, and it connects to the time after by providing a counterpoint to the modern paradigm of what constitutes the philosophical life. The collection combines historical with thematic approaches to scholarship on this issue and is one of the only books of its kind to do so. It is, perhaps, unique in its historical sweep and will prove to be a canonical source for further research on this topic"--

Cover -- Titelei -- Impressum -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Structure of the work -- 2. The Argument -- 2.1. Philosophical Eros and Will-to-Power: Tyranny and Tragedy -- 2.2. Philosophical Eros and the Other: The Will to Knowledge and the Instrumentalization of the Other -- 2.3. A Defence of Plato: Philosophical Eros and the Vindication of Philosophy -- Wholeness, Tragedy and the Hubris of Philosophy: The Speech of Aristophanes and the first Indictment of Philosophy -- 1. Introducing Aristophanes -- 3.1. Background and Political Affiliations -- 3.2. Aristophanes and Plato: The Clouds of Aristophanes -- 4. The Speech of Aristophanes -- 4.1. Aristophanes Tragic Myth -- 4.2. Rebellion, Punishment, Re-orientation -- 4.3. Philosophy and Poetry -- 4.4. Naming Eros: The Threat of Nihilism -- 4.5. Eros Turranos and Eros Ouranos: Two Erotes or One? -- 5. Eros, Politics and Philosophy -- Defending Philosophy I: Nietzsche's Will-to-Power and Philosophy as Creative Excess -- 1. The Problem of Nietzsche and Socrates -- 1.1. Introducing Nietzsche -- 1.2. The Problem of Nietzsche -- 1.3. Nietzsche, Socrates, Plato -- 2. Philosophy as Spiritual Sovereignty -- 2.1. Philosophy in the Birth of Tragedy -- 2.2. Revolutions in Nietzsche's Thought: Re-evaluating the Need for Justification -- 2.3. The 'Yes' and the 'No' to Life: Vitalism, Eros and Will-To-Power -- 2.4. Cultural Critique and the Transvaluation of Values -- 3. The Place of Socrates in the Later Thought of Nietzsche -- 3.1. Socrates as Cultural Critic -- 3.2. Philosophical Eros: Philosophy as Refined Will-To-Power -- 3.3. The Turn to Philosophy: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks -- 3.4. The Later Works and Affirmation as Self-affirmation -- 3.5. Platonic Eros and Will-To-Power -- 3.6. Overthrowing the Gods and Dionysian Chaos.