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Chapter 1: Hobbes and Friendship -- Chapter 2: In Search of the Hobbesian Friend -- Chapter 3: Friend as Ally -- Chapter 4: Friend as Partner -- Chapter 5: Friend as Another Self -- Chapter 6: The State as Artificial Friend -- Chapter 7. Friendship After Hobbes.

Carl Schmitt's friend/enemy principle is exposed to in-depth philosophical analysis and historical examination with the aim of showing that the political follows hostility, violence and terror as form follows matter. The book argues that the partisan is an umbrella concept that includes the national and global terrorist

Recent decades have witnessed a revival of interest in ancient friendship both as a normative and as an explanatory concept. The literature concurs in holding Hobbes responsible for the marginalisation of friendship in political science and suggests that Hobbes devalued friendship because of his understanding of man. This article argues that although Hobbes' appraisal of friendship hinges on his assumption that man is self-interested, his critique of normative friendship does not rest on that notion. Hobbes' challenge to us is this: without foundation in the 'truth' (i.e. the 'Good Life') that underpinned ancient friendship, modern friendship, whether self-interested or selfless, cannot be assumed to be a civic virtue, nor an index of the health of a political association, nor a facilitator of domestic or global peace. Hobbes' critique is especially relevant for writers who maintain that a resurgence of friendship can nurture concord and foster reconciliation within contemporary liberal democracies.

Argues that Carl Schmitt & Thomas Hobbes are separated by an unbridgeable gap in their thinking about the concept of conscription. Hobbes's theory of political obligation is based on two assumptions: the need to hold a negative view of human nature; & the supreme importance of security. Consideration is given to Hobbes's claim that self-preservation can impose limits on civil obedience & his belief that citizens owed obedience to the state only as long as such obedience was not repugnant to the laws of God. Attention is given to Hobbes's critique of theories of civil disobedience, especially his belief that the English Civil War was largely due to the spread of inaccurate information that induced people to disobey the King. Schmitt felt Hobbes's position on the separation between private & public domains undermines his theory of absolute state sovereignty. A comparison of their views on conscription & emergency reveals serious disagreement about Schmitt's claims that all emergencies are public & citizens should be denied the right to challenge the state sending them to war. Adapted from the source document.