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Friendship
Series: - Social and Critical Theory, Volume: 20
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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 on exchange, it is an encounter between two intimates that repudiates the logics of the market, the depersonalizing norms of modern bureaucracy and the objectives of collectivities whether they be couples or social movements. Intimate and just, friendship partakes of the world while resisting its dehumanizing drift. Marrying philosophical poetics with social science sensibility, Alberoni shows that the extent to which we live up to the ideals of friendship marks our capacities to realize the republican virtues in concrete everyday life.
Francesco Alberoni is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at San Pio V, Rome. He has published novels, monographs and numerous articles on social movements and love, including
Movement and Institution (Columbia, 1984) and
Falling in Love (Random House, 1983).
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Meanings of Friendship
Chapter 2 Friendship as Encounter
Chapter 3 The Times of Love and Friendship
Chapter 4 Friendship as Ethical Form of Love
Chapter 5 Preferences, Impartiality and Friendship
Chapter 6 Friendship and Power
Chapter 7 Three Social States
Chapter 8 Friendship and Love’s Paradise Lost
Chapter 9 Friendship and Group Solidarity
Chapter 10 Childhood, Adulthood and Friendly Company
Chapter 11 Self, Friends and Benefactors
Chapter 12 Eroticism and Friendship
Chapter 13 Power and Ambivalence, Envy and Desire
Chapter 14 Morality and the Logics of the Market and the Organizations
Chapter 15 Friendship and Creative Action
Chapter 16 Spiritual Friendship
Chapter 17 Familiar Friendship
Chapter 18 Ideal and Reality: Brothers, Friends, Caritas
Bibliography
Chapter 1 The Meanings of Friendship
Chapter 2 Friendship as Encounter
Chapter 3 The Times of Love and Friendship
Chapter 4 Friendship as Ethical Form of Love
Chapter 5 Preferences, Impartiality and Friendship
Chapter 6 Friendship and Power
Chapter 7 Three Social States
Chapter 8 Friendship and Love’s Paradise Lost
Chapter 9 Friendship and Group Solidarity
Chapter 10 Childhood, Adulthood and Friendly Company
Chapter 11 Self, Friends and Benefactors
Chapter 12 Eroticism and Friendship
Chapter 13 Power and Ambivalence, Envy and Desire
Chapter 14 Morality and the Logics of the Market and the Organizations
Chapter 15 Friendship and Creative Action
Chapter 16 Spiritual Friendship
Chapter 17 Familiar Friendship
Chapter 18 Ideal and Reality: Brothers, Friends, Caritas
Bibliography
A broad, academic and lay readership interested in friendship and intimate relationships more generally.