The Meaning of Friendship

2010. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-230-24288-3
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 281 g

Mark Vernon offers penetrating insights on the idea of friendship, using philosophy and modern culture to ask about friendship and sex, work, politics and spirituality. He also explores how notions of friendship may or may not be changing because of the internet, and looks at the psychology of friendship.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vernon, Mark

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction Friends at Work Friends and Lovers Faking It Friending online Unconditional Love Politics of Friendship Prophetic Friendship The Spirituality of Friendship Friendship Beyond Self-help Further Reading and References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Vernon began his professional life as a priest in the Church of England, left an atheist, and is now a searching agnostic on such things. He is a writer and journalist, other titles including After Atheism and Wellbeing, part of the Art of Living series he edits. He writes regularly for the Guardian and the TLS, is on the faculty at The School of Life in London, and is an honorary research fellow at Birkbeck College, London. He has degrees in physics and theology, and a PhD in philosophy.