Приятелство в самота. Социологически рефлексии на границата
Friendship in Loneliness. A Sociological Reflexion on Borders

Summary/Abstract: Friendship and loneliness belong into those social phenomena to which established sociology pays peripheral attention or no attention at all, or, as in the case loneliness, it does so by treating it primarily as a state of social deprivation. Such phenomena do in fact belong to the borderline sphere of – or also outside – the society, provided that it is conceived and analysed as ‘social totality’, and moreover, from the perspective of integration, inclusion and stability. However, it is wrong to infer that for this reason, such phenomena possess marginal social and sociological relevance. It is to be shown, in taking recourse to the ideas of Georg Simmel and Martin Heidegger, that in the interplay between friendship and loneliness – a re-emphasized and, in the same time, reflexive form of social marginality – the constitutive premises, problems and limits of sociation come out especially clear. This speaks in favour of doing more intensely, also on other occasions, this type of ‘border reflexion’ within sociology.

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