Amistad

Un fascinante ensayo sobre la amistad. «Sin amigos nadie querr?a vivir, aunque tuviera todos los otros bienes , escribi? Arist?teles. Sin embargo, si bien la amistad es desde tiempos inmemoriales una de las aspiraciones fundamentales de la vida, no solemos reflexionar sobre su naturaleza. C?mo se hace un amigo? Por qu? algunas personas nos caen bien al instante? Puede la amistad sobrevivir en la distancia? Se aprende? Es cultural? Ha de ser rec?proca? Puede darse entre padres e hijos? Cu?ndo y por qu? se acaba? Qu? pasa cuando se mezcla con el deseo? Dos amigos, el neurocient?fico Mariano Sigman y el escritor Jacobo Bergareche, acudieron a la ciencia y la filosof?a para explorar esas preguntas. Pero pronto sintieron que esa literatura no reflejaba la amplia diversidad de miradas sobre este tipo de relaciones, y convocaron entonces a personas de todo tipo y condici?n con las que conversaron en intimidad. As?, por estas p?ginas desfilan el octogenario presidente de un banco, un joven emigrante salvadore?o sin papeles, la directora de una residencia de ancianos, una actriz, un viticultor, una escritora y un colectivo de grafiteros. Entre todos ellos componen un fresco inmenso de aquello que llamamos «amistad . ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A fascinating essay on friendship.



"No one would want to live friendless, even if they had all other goods," wrote Aristotle. However, while friendship has been a fundamental aspiration in life since the dawn of time, we don't usually reflect on its nature. How does one make a friend? Why is it that some people are instantly likeable? Can friendship survive long distance? Is it learned? Is it cultural? Should it be reciprocated? Is it plausible between parents and their children? When and why does it end? What happens when it gets mixed with desire? Two friends, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman and writer Jacobo Bergareche, turned to science and philosophy to explore these very questions. But soon felt that such literature did not capture the ample diversity of these kinds of relationships, and so convened people of all sorts and conditions with whom they had intimate conversations. Thus, we see an octogenarian bank president, a young undocumented Salvadoran immigrant, the director of a nursing home, an actress, a winegrower, a writer, and a collective of taggers marching through these pages. Together they make up a grand fresco of what we call "friendship."