“…Irwin, 1995; Nichols, 2009) and especially to Aristotle, whose account of friendship developed in the Nicomachean Ethics and employed in the Politics tends to cast a long shadow over subsequent political thought (compare Pangle, 2003; Schollmeier, 1994; Stern‐Gillet, 1995; although Cooper's work still remains the standard [Cooper, 1977, 1993]). The Aristotelian concept of civic friendship has also been the basis of studies on politics and friendship for the modern period which has led to an increasing consideration of the role of friendship in the politics of modernity (Gandhi, 2006; Hutter, 2000; Kharkhordin, 2006; King and Devere, 2000; White, 1999).…”