| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 335 pages) |
| Series |
Value Inquiry Book Series ; volume 297 |
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Value Inquiry Book Series: Social philosophy |
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Value inquiry book series ; v. 297
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Value inquiry book series. Social philosophy
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| Contents |
Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place; Copyright; Contents; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Contributors; Introduction: Conceptualizing Friendship in Time and Place; SECTION 1: Classical Asian Sources and Traditions; 1 The Chinese Concept of Friendship: Confucian Ethics and the Literati Narratives of Pre-Modern China; 2 The Concept of Friendship in the Jātaka Tales; SECTION 2: Western/European Traditions; 3 Friendship after Money: The Case of Classical Greece; 4 The Road to Wisdom: A New Conceptualization of Friendship in Fourth- Century BCE Athens |
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5 Historical Moments of Friendship Ideals: David & Jonathan, Montaigne, Adam Smith6 Friendship in the European Enlightenment: The Rationalization of Intimacy?; SECTION 3: Friendship in Contemporary East and West; 7 The Utility of 'Translated' Friendship for the Sinophone World: Past and Present; 8 Intimate Relationships between Women as Romantic Love in Modern Japan; 9 Impartiality, Close Friendships and the Confucian Tradition; 10 The Performance of Friendship in Contemporary India; 11 Shades of Friendship among Thai Women in the Netherlands |
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12 On Family, Friendship and the Need for 'Cultural Fuss': Changing Trajectories of Family and Friendship in the Netherlands13 Civil Friendship: A Proposal for Legal Bonds Based on Friendship and Care; Index Nominum; General Index |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2017) |
| Subject |
Friendship -- Case studies
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
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Friendship
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Risseeuw, Carla, editor
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Raalte, Marlein van, 1952- editor
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| LC no. |
2017028876 |
| ISBN |
9004344195 |
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9789004344198 |
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