Publication

2016 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

33,500 words, Guess

Page Count

134 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004288393
  • ISBN-109004288392
  • Library of Congress Control Number2016037427
  • OCLC Control Number956340389
  • Better World Books9789004288393
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Classifications

  • LCCBJ1533.F8A4313 2016
  • LCCBJ1533.F8 A4313 2016

Description

In 'Friendship', Francesco Alberoni offers a wide-ranging analysis of intimacy. Traversing disciplines, he untangles the meanings of friendship from family and friendly relations, from love and passion and the everyday experiences of coupledom. Friendship is the just relationship. Rather than based on exchange, it is an encounter between two intimates that repudiates the logics of the market, the depersonalizing norms of modern bureaucracy and the objectives of collectivities whether they be couples or social movements. Intimate and just, friendship partakes of the world while resisting its dehumanizing drift. Marrying philosophical poetics with social science sensibility, Alberoni shows that the extent to which we live up to the ideals of friendship marks our capacities to realize the republican virtues in concrete everyday life.

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