The Philosophy of Friendship

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Palgrave Macmillan UK, Sep 8, 2005 - Philosophy - 179 pages
In this new accessible philosophy of friendship, Mark Vernon links the resources of the philosophical tradition with numerous illustrations from modern culture to ask what friendship is, how it relates to sex, work, politics and spirituality. Unusually, he argues that Plato and Nietzsche, as much as Aristotle and Aelred, should be put centre stage. Their penetrating and occasionally tough insights are invaluable if friendship is to be a full, not merely sentimental, way of life for today.

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M. Vernon
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About the author (2005)

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.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Philosophy of Friendship
AuthorM. Vernon
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK, 2005
ISBN1403948747, 9781403948748
Length179 pages
Subjects › 

Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / Political
Philosophy / Social
  
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