The Economics of Friendship

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41613-0
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, Band 429, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 904 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

In The Economics of Friendship, Tazuko Angela van Berkel offers an account of the notion of reciprocity in 5th- and 4th-century Greek incepting social theory. The preoccupation with the norms of philia and charis, conspicuous in sources from the Classical Period, is a symptom of changes in the shape of ancient economic activities: the ubiquitous norm that one should reciprocate benefit with benefit becomes a source of conceptual confusion in the Classical Period, where other forms of exchange become conceptually available. This confusion and tension between different models of mutuality, is productive: it is the impetus for folk theory in comedy, tragedy and oratory, as well as philosophical reflection (Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle) on what it is that binds people together.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berkel, Tazuko van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: The Economics of Friendship

1 Friendship: Money Can’t Buy It?

2 F???a

3 An Economic Mentality

4 Apparatus and Argument

2 Grace under Pressure: The Anatomy of ?????

The Argument

1 Three Cases of Isomorphism

2 ????? and Successful Interaction

3 Perception and méconnaissance

4 Conflicts and Cynicism

5 Concluding Remarks

3 The Most Ancient of Obligations: The Nature of Filial Duty

1 The Parent-Child Bond: A Paradigm-Case

2 The Debtor Paradigm of Obligation

3 The Gratitude Theory

4 The Gratitude Theory Analysed

5 Tensions in the Script: The Possibility of ?????

6 Concluding Remarks

4 A Debtor Paradigm of Obligation: Principles of Moral Accounting

1 Moral Bookkeeping

2 Morality as Paying Debts

3 Debts, Gifts and Morality

4 Concluding Remarks: The Ledger under Taboo

5 Pricing the Invaluable: Socrates and the Proper Use of Friends

The Argument

1 Framing Socratic Conversation

2 False Friends, Part One: Utility, Ancient and Modern

3 False Friends Part Two: Economics, Ancient and Modern

4 Education and the Logic of Wage-Earning

5 Concluding Remarks: The Givenness of the Good

6 Active Partnership: Socrates and the Art of Seduction

The Argument

1 Amazing Grace: Looking as a Reciprocal Endeavour

2 The Hunter Hunted: Role Reversals and the Paradox of the Hetaera

3 Desire Management

4 The Secrets of Love Magic

5 The Socratic Principle: Pay It Forward

6 Concluding Remarks: Language Games at the Market Frontier

7 Relational Economics: Aristotle on Value and Equivalence

1 Aristotle Discovers the Economy?

2 Equivalence

3 Value and Values

4 The Politics of Need

5 Concluding Remarks

Epilogue: Hostile Worlds

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tazuko Angela van Berkel is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at Leiden University. Her 2012 Leiden dissertation was awarded the Legatum Stolpianum. She has published on Protagoras, Xenophon, ancient economic reflection, and the rhetoric of numbers.