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The Economics of Friendship : Conceptions of Reciprocity in Classical Greece.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Mnemosyne, Supplements SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2019Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (547 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004416147
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Economics of FriendshipDDC classification:
  • 938
LOC classification:
  • GN486.3 .B475 2020
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction: The Economics of Friendship -- ‎1. Friendship: Money Can't Buy It? -- ‎2. Φιλία -- ‎3. An Economic Mentality -- ‎4. Apparatus and Argument -- ‎Chapter 2. Grace under Pressure: The Anatomy of χάρις -- ‎The Argument -- ‎1. Three Cases of Isomorphism -- ‎2. χάρις and Successful Interaction -- ‎3. Perception and méconnaissance -- ‎4. Conflicts and Cynicism -- ‎5. Concluding Remarks -- ‎Chapter 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 Analyzed -- ‎5. Tensions in the Script: The Possibility of χάρις -- ‎6. Concluding Remarks -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 6. Active Partnership: Socrates and the Art of Seduction -- ‎The Argument -- ‎1. Amazing Grace: Looking as a Reciprocal Endeavor -- ‎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 -- ‎Chapter 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 of Modern Authors -- ‎Index of Names and Subjects -- ‎Index of Greek Terminology -- ‎Index of Ancient Sources -- ‎List of Key Passages.
Summary: In The Economics of Friendship, Tazuko Angela van Berkel offers an account of emerging social theory on reciprocity, philia and charis in the Greek world of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.
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Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Chapter 1. Introduction: The Economics of Friendship -- ‎1. Friendship: Money Can't Buy It? -- ‎2. Φιλία -- ‎3. An Economic Mentality -- ‎4. Apparatus and Argument -- ‎Chapter 2. Grace under Pressure: The Anatomy of χάρις -- ‎The Argument -- ‎1. Three Cases of Isomorphism -- ‎2. χάρις and Successful Interaction -- ‎3. Perception and méconnaissance -- ‎4. Conflicts and Cynicism -- ‎5. Concluding Remarks -- ‎Chapter 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 Analyzed -- ‎5. Tensions in the Script: The Possibility of χάρις -- ‎6. Concluding Remarks -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 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 -- ‎Chapter 6. Active Partnership: Socrates and the Art of Seduction -- ‎The Argument -- ‎1. Amazing Grace: Looking as a Reciprocal Endeavor -- ‎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 -- ‎Chapter 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 of Modern Authors -- ‎Index of Names and Subjects -- ‎Index of Greek Terminology -- ‎Index of Ancient Sources -- ‎List of Key Passages.

In The Economics of Friendship, Tazuko Angela van Berkel offers an account of emerging social theory on reciprocity, philia and charis in the Greek world of the 5th and 4th centuries B.C.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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