'Higher Forms of Interdependence': Saul Bellow and Friendship

最后，我的论文将考察索尔·贝娄的小说是如何表达、美学和友谊政治的。它还将贝娄置于友谊写作的历史中(亚里士多德、蒙田、爱默生、德里达等)。以及在哲学、政治学和心理学等其他领域的最新研究成果。由于贝娄是博士学位的坚定中心，也可能是后来工作的榜样，我也打算建议如何将友谊作为人类关系的一个类别，作为一个具有许多比喻共鸣的术语，成为研究其他作家的有效和有启发性的方法。请看我附上的研究建议书，以更全面地描述我的论文的计划轮廓。

Ultimately, my thesis will examine how Saul Bellow's fiction articulates and aesthetics and a politics of friendship. It willalso situate Bellow within the history of writing in friendship (Aristotle, Montaigne, Emerson, Derrida, etc.) and withinmore recent work in other fields, such as philosophy, politics, and psychology. With Bellow as a firm centre for the PhD,and also perhaps as an example for later work, I also intend to suggest ways in which a consideration of friendship, bothas a category of human relationships and as a term of much figurative resonance, can be an effective and illuminatingapproaching for studying other writers. Please see my attached research proposal for a fuller account of the projectedcontours of my thesis.