商品簡介
Caine (history, Monash U., Australia) brings together nine chapters by scholars of philosophy, history, Australian indigenous studies, and political science from Australia and the UK, who consider the history of friendship in the Western world from Classical Athens to the present, and its importance to social and individual well-being, as well as the continuities and changes in the meaning, nature, and position of friendship in terms of other relationships. Beginning with classical philosophers, they trace the continuation of their ideas and new issues that arose in subsequent periods, such as urbanization, and key themes, such as the moral nature and signification of friendship, changing practices, and where, how and with whom they occur. They also discuss the idea that friendships were only between men, how it was challenged, and those between men and women. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Barbara Caine is a Professor in the Department of History, University of Sydney, Australia