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Friendship as Sacred Knowing

Overcoming Isolation

by Samuel Kimbriel (teaching Fellow In Philosophical Theology, Teaching Fellow In Philosophical Theology, University Of Nottingham, Cambridge)

  • Hardback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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We are haunted, Samuel Kimbriel suggests, by a habit of isolation buried, often imperceptibly, within our practices of understanding and relating to the world. In this volume he works through the complexities of this disposition to contest its place within contemporary philosophical thought and practice. He focuses on the human activity of friendship. Chapters one and two examine friendship to unearth the contours of this habit towards isolation and to reveal certain ills that have long attended it. Chapters three through seven place these isolated ways of relating to the world into critical dialogue with the tradition of late-antique and early-medieval Johannine Christianity, in which intimacy and understanding go hand in hand. This tradition drew the human activities of friendship and enquiry into such unity that understanding itself became a kind of communion. Kimbriel endorses a return to an antique and particularly Christian philosophical habit-"the befriending of wisdom."
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  • Author

    Samuel Kimbriel (teaching Fellow In Philosophical Theology, Teaching Fellow In Philosophical Theology, University Of Nottingham, Cambridge)

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    June 2014

  • Weight

    441g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199363988

  • ISBN-10

    0199363986

  • Eden Code

    4266471

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