Friendship / / by Francesco Alberoni ; with an introduction and translation by Harry Blatterer, Sveva Magaraggia.

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 o...

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Superior document:Social and Critical Theory, Volume 20
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Italian
Series:Social and critical theory ; Volume 20.
Physical Description:1 online resource (140 pages).
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: Encountering Friendship with Francesco Alberoni / Harry Blatterer and Sveva Magaraggia
  • The Meanings of Friendship
  • Friendship as Encounter
  • The Times of Love and Friendship
  • Friendship as Ethical Form of Love
  • Preferences, Impartiality and Friendship
  • Friendship and Power
  • Three Social States
  • Friendship and Love’s Paradise Lost
  • Friendship and Group Solidarity
  • Childhood, Adulthood and Friendly Company
  • Self, Friends and Benefactors
  • Eroticism and Friendship
  • Power and Ambivalence, Envy and Desire
  • Morality and the Logics of Market and Organization
  • Friendship and Creative Action
  • Spiritual Friendship
  • Familiar Friendship
  • Ideal and Reality: Brothers, Friends, Caritas
  • Bibliography.