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Critical Friendship in the Modern World

by Laura Eramian , Peter Mallory
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781009635400
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
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  • Pages: 236
  • Original Price: GBP 105.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 486 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Social Psychology

Friendship is a critically important aspect of our lives, but is it always an unassailably 'good thing'? This book begins with the innovative premise that friendship is inherently complex and characterized by opposing qualities: it is both pleasurable and fraught, private and public, and inclusive and exclusionary. Rather than simply celebrating friendship as universally beneficial or worrying about its decline amid rising social disconnection, Laura Eramian and Peter Mallory offer a comprehensive conceptualization of 'critical friendship' across its diverse meanings. Drawing on contemporary insights and cross-cultural examples from interdisciplinary contributors, the chapters examine the ambivalence of friendship, its entanglements with other relations or institutions, the quest for selfhood and recognition, and how friendship finds meaning across private and public life. Through an empirically rich evaluation of the multiple ways that friendship is practiced, valued, or interpreted, this volume advances critical debates on friendship across social psychology, anthropology, sociology and beyond.

Eramian, Laura: - Laura Eramian is a social anthropologist and Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, Canada. She is author of Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda (2018), which received an Honourable Mention for the Labrecque-Lee Book Prize.

Mallory, Peter: - Peter Mallory is a sociologist and Associate Professor at St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. He is author of numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on representations of friendship in social theory and in personal life.

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