The Promise of Friendship

The Promise of FriendshipArgues 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

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Two case studies evaluate the tradeoffs between benefit and risks in the use of compost in perennial and annual crops

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When Egyptians began demonstrating against the regime of President Hosni Mubarak on 25 January 2011

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speak the unspeakable

including documentary records of the Soviet Union and the Welsh valleys

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This new collection suggests that we are experiencing an activist turn in music research

homosexuality and the age of consent in the British Empire

Balancing the Self generates new insights into emerging fields of health governance