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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 resonances of friendship in the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, the biography of the Indian historian Brijen Gupta, and the oral narratives of a Kuranko storyteller, Keti Ferenke Koroma. He offers reflections on childhood friends, imaginary friends, lifelong friendships, and friendships with animals. He ruminates particularly on the complications of friendship in the context of anthropological fieldwork, exploring the contradiction between the egalitarian spirit of friendship on the one hand and, on the other, the power imbalance between ethnographers and their interlocutors.Through these stories, Jackson explores the unpredictable interplay of mutability and mutuality in intimate human relationships, and the critical importance of choice in forming friendship—what it means to be loyal to friends through good times and bad, and even in the face of danger. Through a blend of 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. --- Anthropology of Friendship. --- Aristotle. --- C.S. Lewis. --- Childhood Friends. --- Companion Animals. --- Elective Affinities. --- Friendship and love. --- Friendship in Philosophy. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Imaginary Friends. --- J.R.R. Tolkien. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Kuranko people. --- Montaigne. --- Sierra Leone. --- ethnography. --- fieldwork. --- memoir. --- personal essay.

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'Goethe Yearbook' 15 features an array of interdisciplinary essays, among them articles on Goethe and such topics as architecture, mineralogy, theatrical improvisation, and Ulrich von Hutten. Readers will also find two astute and erudite interpretations of key poems, 'Alexis und Dora' and 'Urworte. Orphisch,' as well as a compelling exploration of the legal, social, and economic issues pertaining to the question: 'Why Did Goethe Marry When He Did?' An interpretation of Goethe's 'Elective Affinities,' two essays on Schiller's plays, and an incisive analysis by Peter Uwe Hohendahl titled 'The New Man: Theories of Masculinity Around 1800' round out the volume. CONTRIBUTORS: EHRHARD BAHR, YASSER DERWICHE DJAZAERLY, ROBERT GERMANY, ALBERT E. GURGANUS, PETER UWE HOHENDAHL, JOCELYN HOLLAND, BORGE KRISTIANSEN, ELIZABETH POWERS, DANIEL PURDY, PETER J. SCHWARTZ, AND CHRISTOPH SCHWEITZER. Simon J. Richter is professor of German at the University of Pennsylvania, and Daniel Purdy is associate professor of German at Pennsylvania State University. Book review editor Martha B. Helfer is professor of German at Rutgers University.

Philosophers --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- Goethe --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von --- Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- Hete, Johann Vol'fhanh --- Gete, Iogann Vol'fgang --- ゲーテ --- Gete, Volʹfgang --- Ko-tê --- Gede --- Gete, Jogann --- Gette --- Gʹote, Ĭokhan Volʹfgang --- Jūtah, Yūhān Fūlfjānj --- Goethe, J. W. --- Jītī --- Gete, V. --- Koetʻe --- Goetʻe --- Getė, --- Gkaite --- Gitah, Y. Ṿ. --- Goethe, Jan Wolfgan, --- Gëte, Iogann Volʹfgang --- Göte --- Gyoete --- Goethe, W. v. --- Fon-Geteh, Ṿ. --- Geteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon --- -Giteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon --- -Gete, Johan Volfgang --- Hete, Ĭ. V. --- Kēōtʻē, Volfkank --- Katē --- Katē, Yōkān̲ Vulpkēṅk Vān̲ --- Гете, Иоганн Вольфганг --- Qöte, Y. V. --- Qöte, Yohan Volfqanq --- גטה --- גטה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, --- גטה, י.ו --- גיתה --- גיתה, יוהאן וולפאנג פון --- גיתה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגאנג וון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג פון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג, --- געטהע --- געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג --- געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג פון, --- געטהע, יאהאן װאלפגאנג, --- געטהע, י. וו --- געטהע, י. וו. פאן --- געטהע, י. װ., --- געטהע, י.װ --- געטע, װ.פ --- גתה, וו --- גתה, יוהן וולפגאנג ון, --- גתה, יוהן וולפגנג --- י. וו. געטהע --- جوته --- گوته، يوهان ولفگانگ ون --- 歌德, --- Criticism and interpretation --- ゲエテ --- LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German. --- Alexis und Dora. --- Elective Affinities. --- Goethe Society of North America. --- Goethe Yearbook. --- Goethe. --- North American Goethe Scholarship. --- Schiller's plays. --- The New Man: Theories of Masculinity Around 1800. --- Ulrich von Hutten. --- Urworte. Orphisch. --- architecture. --- economic issues. --- legal. --- masculinity. --- mineralogy. --- social. --- theatrical improvisation.