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Friendship.

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This book 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. Renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson explores the political and personal resonances of friendship, and the tensions between them-in the thought of philosophers from Aristotle and Montaigne to Arendt, in the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and in the oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He offers reflections on childhood friends and imaginary friends, lifelong friendships and friendships with animals; and ruminates on the complications of friendship between ethnographers and their interlocutors in the field. Blending memoir, theory, ethnography, and fiction, Jackson shows us how the elective affinities of friendship transcend culture, gender, and age, and offer us perennial means of taking stock of our lives and getting a measure of our own self-worth.

Friendship --- Interpersonal relations

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Quels sont les processus en jeu lorsqu'une relation amicale se transforme en relation amoureuse, et, inversement, lorsqu'une relation amoureuse se transforme en amitié ? Une telle question suppose de réinterroger la différence entre amour et amitié. Elle semble une évidence pour chacun, avec une distinction fondée sur la prise en compte de la dimension sexuelle de la relation et de l'intensité des sentiments, voire de l'impact passionnel. De nos jours, il devient plus fréquent que dans le passé qu'après une relation amoureuse, les amants d'autrefois tentent de devenir, voire de redevenir amis, et qu'une séparation s'efforce de déboucher sur une amitié purgée des anciennes passions. À la haine première et aux orages passionnels de la séparation, peut succéder une longue période d'accalmie amicale. On peut aussi s'interroger sur le rôle joué dans ces processus par la parentalité partagée. Cet ouvrage déclinera aussi différentes modalités de transformation entre amour et amitié, à partir de situations cliniques d'une riche diversité, de l'adolescence au grand âge.

Amour --- Amitié --- Psychanalyse --- Dating (Social customs) --- Friendship

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Heloise's father died in a car crash when she was a little girl; at a dinner party in her forties, she meets someone connected to that long-ago tragedy. Janey's bohemian mother plans to marry a man close to Janey's own age - everything changes when an accident interrupts the wedding party. A daughter caring for her elderly mother during the pandemic becomes obsessed with the woman next door; in the wake of his best friend's death, a man must reassess his affair with the friend's wife. Teenager Cecilia wakes one morning on vacation with her parents in Florence and sees them for the first time through disenchanted eyes.

Fiction --- Short stories --- short stories --- Psychology --- Family life --- Friendship

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What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of several genres of literature of the late 5th and early-to-mid 4th centuries BCE. Such connection was particularly effective with lower classes of Athenians, who had been accustomed to being excluded from politicians' friendship-based approaches to coalition-building. Comedies of Aristophanes (particularly Knights), tragedies of Euripides (particularly Iphigenia in Aulis), and historical biographies of Xenophon (particularly Anabasis and Cyropaedia) depict demagogues, or characters exhibiting demagogic characteristics, using a style of outreach to members of neglected classes that involved provoking feelings of friendship with individuals in these classes, whether the demagogues and individual supporters actually interacted closely or not. These leaders employed techniques, such as propinquity, homophily, and transitivity, that both contemporary sociologists (and, in some cases, Aristotle) recognize as effective for such purposes. Particular attention is paid to discrepancies in Aristophanes' Knights between how the demagogue Cleon is hyperbolically portrayed (as a pederastic lover of the Athenian people) and how his language and actions make him out - as a friend of theirs, as he likely portrayed himself.

Leadership --- Friendship --- Greek literature --- Leadership in literature --- Friendship in literature --- History and criticism --- Athens (Greece) --- Politics and government. --- History.