Everyday Friendship conceptualises the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the terms and conditions of love and friendship are increasingly unclear. Drawing on writing on friendship, love, and intimacy by such thinkers as Simmel and Kracauer, Elias, Goffman, Luhmann…
Everyday Friendships conceptualizes the lived experience of intimacy in a world in which the meaning of love and friendship is increasingly unclear. Drawing on such thinkers as Simmel and Kracauer, Elias, Goffman, Luhmann, and Honneth, the book charts modern intimacy and the fre…
Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significan…
Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Europe, the papers in this volume examine the ideology and practice of friendship as it is embedded in wider social contexts and transformations.
Burying autumn: poetry, friendship and loss
by Hu, Ying
fromHarvard East Asian Monographs
"A linked biographical study of the enduring friendship of three women writers...Qiu Jin, Wu Zhiying. and Xu Zihua...in late Qing and early Republican China"...
