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The Nation and the Promise of Friendship

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-78402-1

ISBN: 978-3-319-78401-4

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Apr 11, 2018

1 - 10 of 10 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 1 –19

[How do compatriots imagine the nation as a close-knit community even as they know that it is essentially an abstract collectivity of strangers? This phenomenological paradox is rarely discussed in contemporary theories of nationalism and civil society. If the nation is a cognitive abstraction,...
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Friendship and Solidarity: The Road Not Taken in the Study of National Attachment

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 23 –41

[Studies of nationalism privilege questions about the common identity of actors and overlook the question of social ties between actors. Recent reappraisals of national identity discourse that foregrounded institutional processes and the study of national communities in everyday life (notably...
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Social Club Sociability

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 43 –69

[In order to understand how intermediate social institutions transform strangers into acquaintances and friends, we need to consider how they occasion a non-instrumental “social club sociability” along the lines of the expressive sociability highlighted by Simmel. With the growing differentiation...
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Public and Collective Intimacy

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 71 –91

[This chapter spells out the research strategy of public and collective intimacy. The chapter revisits the concept of intimacy and its use in public life, problematizing the “identitarian” focus in current scholarship (among them Herzfeld, Illouz, and Ringmar). Drawing on the understudied...
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The Meta-Narrative of Strangers-Turned-Friends

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 93 –107

[This chapter unravels the symbolic cultural level of national solidarity discourse. National rhetoric reconciles two distinct tropes for close-knit ties, family and friendship, by invoking the figure of the “brother.” The magic of the national imagination lies not only in the transformation of...
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Can We Really Distinguish Between Civic and National Solidarity?

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 109 –120

[While this book centers on national rather than civic attachments, Chapter Six calls attention to the fact that when it comes to the question of solidarity (as opposed to identity), the two are not easily distinguishable beyond the symbolic cultural level. Reviewing other prominent bottom-up...
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Sacred Brotherhood: Freemasonry and Civic-National Sociability

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 123 –148

[This chapter explores how members of Masonic lodges in Israel extend the logic of friendship to a broader organizational and civic context. The study follows the intersections of interpersonal, public, and collective intimacy in members’ ritual activities and everyday life. Lodge members take on...
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Big Brother: Viewers Turned Accomplices on Reality TV

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 149 –181

[This chapter presents the case of the highly popular reality television show Big Brother. Drawing on semiotic analysis and extended audience research in Israel, the chapter demonstrates various practices of “mediated public intimacy” taking place between two or more contestants with the audience...
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Absent Brother: Military Friendship and Commemoration

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 183 –204

[The final case study deals with a form of sociability more readily associated with national solidarity: military friendships and commemoration rituals. The chapter explores the manifestation of the meta-narrative of strangers-turned-friends in the public staging of personal bonds between...
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Toward a Research Program for Studying National Solidarity

Kaplan, Danny

Pages: 207 –220

[The concluding chapter sums up the theoretical argument and spells out the main structural issues to be considered in the empirical investigation of social clubs. The case studies presented in this book enact the meta-narrative of strangers-turned-friends through different patterns of...

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