James G. Carrier's scientific contributions
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Describes the way friendship is spoken and thought about. The author attempts to make the notion of friendship problematic, by first noting that our conception of friendship entails a corresponding notion of the self and considering other ways that selves can be conceived. These other selves are presented through a sketch, necessarily stylized, of...
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... The concept of "friendship" became, in the words of Julian Pit-Rivers (1973: 90) "an invention of soidisant [so-called] 'civilised society' which has abandoned kinship as an organising principle." Defining and sorting friends from kin would become an important part of the British civilising mission, through which relations premised on market self-interest and humanitarian altruism subsequently would emerge (Carrier, 2020). ...
