The Dialectics of Friendship

First published in 1989, The Dialectics of Friendship explores the ideals and paradoxes of friendship against the backdrop of other relationships.

Roy Porter and Sylvana Tomaselli

Introduction; 1: Friendship and the Greeks, Pat Easterling; 2: Friendship in the Christian Tradition, Gillian and Stephen R. L. Clark; 3: Female Friendship, Sue Limb; 4: Male Friends, Michael Neve; 5: Friendship in Children's Fiction, Margaret Kinnell; 6: Friendship and Personal Development, Adrian Furnham; 7: Humans, Animals, and the Limits of Friendship, James Serpell, 8: Friendship and the Social Order, Stephanie Garrett; 9: Freud, Friendship, and Politics, Graham Little; 10: The Environment of Fellowship Around 1900, Logic Barrow; Index