The Meaning of Friendship

by Vernon, Mark

• ISBN13: 9780230242883
• ISBN10: 023024288X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In this book, 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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
List of Illustrations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Friends at Work	p. 15
Friends and Lovers	p. 43
Faking It	p. 73
Friending Online	p. 104
Unconditional Love	p. 122
Politics of Friendship	p. 152
Prophetic Friendship	p. 188
The Spirituality of Friendship	p. 222
Friendship Beyond Self-help	p. 242
Further Reading and References	p. 257
Index	p. 267
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