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The economics of friendship : conceptions of reciprocity in classical Greece / by Tazuko Angela van Berkel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berkel, Tazuko Angela van, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 429.
- Mnemosyne supplements ; Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature; 0169-8958 ; volume 429
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship--Greece.
- Friendship.
- Friendship in literature.
- Values--Greece.
- Values.
- Exchange--Greece.
- Exchange.
- Interpersonal relations--Greece.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 539 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020]
- Summary:
- "In The Economics of Friendship, Tazuko Angela van Berkel offers an account of the notion of reciprocity in 5th- and 4th-century Greek incepting social theory. The preoccupation with the norms of philia and charis conspicuous in sources from the Classical Period, is a symptom of changes in the shape of ancient economic activities: the ubiquitous norm that one should reciprocate benefit with benefit becomes a source of conceptual confusion in the Classical Period, where other forms of exchange become conceptually available. This confusion and tension between different models of mutuality, is productive: it is the impetus for folk theory in comedy, tragedy and oratory, as well as philosophical reflection (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle) on what it is that binds people together"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the economics of friendship
- Grace under pressure: the anatomy of kharis
- The most ancient of obligations: the nature of filial duty
- A debtor paradigm of obligation: principles of moral accounting
- Pricing the invaluable: Socrates and the proper use of friends
- Active partnership: Socrates and the art of seduction
- Relational economics: Aristotle on value and equivalence
- Epilogue: hostile worlds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: van Berkel, Tazuko Angela, The economics of friendship
- ISBN:
- 9789004416130
- 9004416137
- OCLC:
- 1108554339
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