{"product_id":"cabinet-36-friendship-9781932698343","title":"Cabinet 36: Friendship","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sina Najafi | Svetlana Boym | Regine Basha\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cabinet\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cabinet\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Criticism \u0026amp; Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nature of friendship has been a subject of inquiry from the beginnings of the western philosophical tradition. Socrates considers the question of \u003ci\u003ephilia\u003c\/i\u003e in one of Plato's earliest dialogues, declaring that his \"passion for friends\" causes him to value them above even gold. Subsequent thinkers have continued the inquiry, yet friendship remains a phenomenon that \"may well be reckoned,\" as Emerson wrote, \"the masterpiece of nature.\" \u003ci\u003eCabinet\u003c\/i\u003e issue 36, with its special section on friendship, features Svetlana Boym on Hannah Arendt's definition of friendship as freedom from \"totalitarianism for two\"; Ruben Gallo on Freud's school friend with whom he communicated mainly in Spanish; and Regine Basha on Sol Lewitt's exchange of gifts with other artists. Elsewhere in the issue: Paul La Farge on the color black; Kevin McCann on the life and work of schizophrenic author Louis Wolfson, the object of fascination for a generation of French intellectuals; Helen Polson on the fate of lost teeth; Bertell Ollman on his infamous board game Class Struggle; and an artist project by Zoe Bellof.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabinet","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999749947543,"sku":"9781932698343","price":823.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781932698343.webp?v=1783601625","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/cabinet-36-friendship-9781932698343","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}