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Author Devere, Heather

Title The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (209 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; The Role of Friendship in Aristotle's Political Theory; Hume, Smith and Ferguson: Friendship in Commercial Society; Circles, Ladders and Stars: Nietzsche on Friendship; Martin Buber and the Ontological Crisis of Modern Man; Derrida and Friendship; The Virtue of Solitude and the Vicissitudes of Friendship; Reviving Greco-Roman Friendship: A Bibliographic Review; Abstracts; Notes on Contributors; Subject Index
Summary In antiquity, it was not only Aristotle who assumed the people are more to be understood in relation to one another than as individual or solitary constructs. This examination considers the changing attitudes to friendship since antiquity
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Subject Trust.
Friendship -- Public opinion -- History
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Interpersonal Relations.
Trust
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author King, Preston
ISBN 9781135306465
113530646X