Conceptualizing friendship in time and place /

Conceptualizing friendship in time and place /

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...

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Other Authors: Risseeuw, Carla.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill-Rodopi, 2017.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 297.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2017, ISBN: 9789004328082.

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Friendship > Case studies.

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Call Number: HM1161

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Table of 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.