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Conceptualizing friendship in time and place / edited by Carla Risseeuw, Marlein van Raalte.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Value inquiry book series ; Volume 297.
- Value Inquiry Book Series, 0929-8436 ; Volume 297
- Social Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship--Case studies.
- Friendship.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill-Rodopi, 2017.
- Summary:
- The concept of friendship is more easily valued than it is described: this volume brings together reflections on its meaning and practice in a variety of social and cultural settings in history and in the present time, focusing on Asia and the Western, Euro-American world. The extension of the group in which friendship is recognized, and degrees of intimacy (whether or not involving an erotic dimension) and genuine appreciation may vary widely. Friendship may simply include kinship bonds—solidarity being one of its more general characteristics. In various contexts of travelling, migration, and a dearth of offspring, friendship may take over roles of kinship, also in terms of care.
- Contents:
- Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place / Carla Risseeuw and Marlein van Raalte
- Classical Asian Sources and Traditions
- The Chinese Concept of Friendship: Confucian Ethics and the Literati Narratives of Pre-Modern China / Ping Wang
- The Concept of Friendship in the Jātaka Tales / Ranjini Obeyesekere
- Western/European Traditions
- Friendship after Money: The Case of Classical Greece / Tazuko van Berkel
- The Road to Wisdom: A New Conceptualization of Friendship in Fourth-Century bce Athens1 / Albert Joosse
- Historical Moments of Friendship Ideals: David and Jonathan, Montaigne, Adam Smith / Allan Silver
- Friendship in the European Enlightenment: The Rationalization of Intimacy? / Adam Sutcliffe
- Friendship in Contemporary East and West∵
- The Utility of ‘Translated’ Friendship for the Sinophone World: Past and Present / Wei-cheng Chu
- Intimate Relationships between Women as Romantic Love in Modern Japan1 / Kanako Akaeda
- Impartiality, Close Friendships and the Confucian Tradition / Andrew Lambert
- The Performance of Friendship in Contemporary India / Nita Kumar
- Shades of Friendship among Thai Women in the Netherlands / Panitee Suksomboon Brown
- On Family, Friendship and the Need for ‘Cultural Fuss’: Changing Trajectories of Family and Friendship in the Netherlands*1 / Carla Risseeuw
- Civil Friendship: A Proposal for Legal Bonds Based on Friendship and Care / Natascha Gruver.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-34419-5
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004344198 DOI
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