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Cover -- Aristotle On The Concept Of Shared Life -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 0.1 Life, Animality, And The Reception Of Aristotle's Political Theory -- 0.2 Zōē, Politics, And Unlivable Life -- 0.3 Overview -- 0.4 Reading Aristotle -- Part I: Shared Life In Aristotle's Ethics And Politics -- Chapter 1: Friendship And Other Selves In Aristotle's Ethics -- 1.1 Self-sufficiency, Friendship, And Shared Life In The Nichomachean Ethics -- 1.2 Self-sufficiency, Friendship, And Shared Life In The Eudemian Ethics -- 1.3 Love Of Self 1.4 Shared Life And The Social Virtues -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Shared Life And Politics -- 2.1 Shared Life And The Political Bond -- 2.2 Shared Life In The Politic -- 2.2.1 Shared Life And Private Ownership -- 2.2.2 Shared Life As Both Impulse And Choice -- 2.2.3 Shared Life As Both Limited And Limiting -- 2.3 Tyranny And The Dissolution Of Shared Life -- 2.4 Conclusion -- Part Ii: The Lives Of Animals -- Chapter 3: Land-dwellers And Water-dwellers -- 3.1 Bio-logy In The History Of Animals -- 3.2 Animal Ēthos -- 3.3 The Lives Of Bees -- 3.4 The Generation Of Bees -- 3.5 Conclusion Chapter 4: Polis-dwellers -- 4.1 Types Of Regimes -- 4.2 The Destruction And Preservation Of Regimes -- 4.3 The City Of Prayers -- 4.4 Conclusion -- Part Iii: Zōē-politics -- Chapter 5: The Commodification Of Life -- 5.1 Animate Possessions -- 5.2 Inanimate Possessions -- 5.3 Civic Reproduction -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Natal Longing And The Maternal Bond -- 6.1 Mothers And Poets -- 6.2 Familial Philia And Political Attachment -- 6.3 From The Other Mother To The Mother As Other -- 6.4 Conclusion -- Coda: Unlivable Life -- Bibliography -- Index Sara Brill. Electronic Reproduction. Oxford Available Via World Wide Web.