Friendship

by Michael D. Jackson

Book Overview

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship--a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love. Beginning with Aristotle's accounts of friendship as a political virtue and Montaigne's famous essay on friendship as a form of love, Jackson examines the tension between the political and personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1512824127
• ISBN13: 9781512824124
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"