Description: Deep friendship may express profound loyalty, but so too may virulent nationalism. What can and should we say about this Janus-faced virtue of the will? This volume explores at length the contours of an important and troubling virtue -- its cognates, contrasts, and perversions; its strengths and weaknesses; its awkward relations with universal morality; its oppositional form and limits; as well as the ways in which it functions in various associative connections, such as friendship and familial relations, organizations and professions, nations, countries, and religious tradition.
Review Quotes: "Clearly written and jargon-free for a general audience, this well-researched book is critically challenging, opening up opportunities for further important investigations in the future...Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers." --Choice
--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"This is a thought-provoking work that deserves to be read by anyone interested in the philosophical import of associational ties." - Diane Jeske, Australasian Journal of Philosophy