Narrative Constitution of Friendship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9686933 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Moore (0000-0003-3149-1140), Samuel Frederick (0000-0001-5794-1459, Pennsylvania State University) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-130 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217317000129 |
| OpenAlex | W2592896942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 16 |
We argue that friendship is constituted in the practice of narration, not merely identified through psychological or sociological criteria. We show that whether two people have, as Aristotle argues, ‘lived together’ in ‘mutually acknowledged goodwill’ can be determined only through a narrative reconstruction of a shared past. We demonstrate this with a close reading of Thomas Bernhard’s Wittgenstein’s Nephew: A Friendship (1982). We argue that this book provides not only an illustration but also an enactment of the practice of friendship as the urge to redeem—and thus to instantiate—Aristotelian suzên (‘living together’) by means of its telling
Aesthetics · Constitution · Epistemology · Friendship · Linguistics · Narrative · Nephew and niece · Political science · Reading (process) · Social science · Sociology · Law · Narrative Theory and Analysis · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Wittgensteinian philosophy and applications
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |