Beyond Friendship and Eros - Unrecognized Relationships between Men and Women

Explores deep intimate personal relationships between men and women.
Culminating a twenty-year personal and scholarly quest, the authors explore the phenomenon of loving relationships (minus the sexual attraction) between men and women. They articulate these relationships as dialogical love in which partners respond to each other's presence personally rather than categorically as friend or lover. In a society where relationships of dialogical love are neither articulated and named nor recognized as acceptable ways of being, they are usually mistaken as affairs or regarded as "just" friend relationships. Since these relationships are spontaneous, free, and open, their meaning is disclosed through examples rather than by traditional definition. Throughout the book, the authors share their own personal relationship, similar relationships of those they interviewed, and relationships from literature and popular movies. Further illuminating interpretations of friendship and love are excerpts from C. S. Lewis, Rollo May, Caroline Simon, and Robert Solomon. Personal relationships are explicated by the work of Martin Buber, John Macmurray, and Alfred Schutz.

About the author

At Lynchburg College John R. Scudder Jr. is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus and Anne H. Bishop is Professor of Nursing Emerita. Together they have coauthored a number of books on nursing, including The Practical, Moral, and Personal Sense of Nursing: A Phenomenological Philosophy of Practice, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Anne H Bishop, Anne H. Bishop, Bishop Anne H., John R. Scudder, John R Scudder Jr, John R. Scudder Jr, John R. Scudder Jr.
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.07.2001
• EAN: 9780791451151
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-5115-1
• No. of pages: 140
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 327 g
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy; SUNY series in Philosophy; Suny the Philosophy of the Soc
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Sociology: family and relationships, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality