Beyond Friendship and Eros

Beyond Friendship and ErosExplores 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

and stories of his encounters on the South Fork of Long Island give readers a greater understanding of how this community has changed over the years and the major figures who have shepherded these changes along

The core question of the book is: how can people be aware of silence without turning it into a thing and losing it

and the people with whom he identified

what does learning to teach do and mean to newcomers and to those who surround them

and his service to Binghamton University as Professor of Romance Languages and University Distinguished Service Professor

describes the soul's illness: when sinners rationalize evil as good

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and while some of these connections are virtual

It shows that Plato's middle dialogues develop and extend

Three are from his peers Captain Trench

The absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic systems by repairing them