Friendship
Graham Little
In Friendship, Graham Little discusses one of life’s primary experiences and invites readers to ask themselves what friendship really is. What makes us friends? Are there different kinds of friendships? Why do we have the friends we do?
Little looks at the history of friendship from the ancient Greeks to Freud and beyond. He links some of the oldest ideas about friendship with some of the newest, and shows how friendship is a way of knowing people, and is not just the feelings we have about them. People from all walks of like talk honestly and intimately about friendship here, as if the reader were a best friend. Much of what they have to say is surprising, counter to conventional wisdomand friendship emerges as tangled and unpredictable as life itself.
Graham Little
Graham Little was one of Australia's foremost writers on psychology and politics. He was best known for his writing on political leadership and political psychology, and for his broadcasts on ABC radio and SBS television. A frequent contributor to Australian magazines and newspapers, he enjoyed a wide readership and critical acclaim.
Graham Little was born in Belfast in 1939, and emigrated with his family from England in 1954. A graduate in economics from the University of Melbourne and sociology from the Australian National University, he later undertook post-doctoral studies at Yale University. Dr Little was reader in political science at the University of Melbourne, where he taught from 1971 until his death.
Extent: 288pp
Size: 235mm x 153mm
ISBN (10): 0908011 547
ISBN (13): 9780908011544
RRP: $32.95
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Status: Out of print
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