Las políticas de la amistad en La Celestina : el caso de Pármeno

Abstract

Through the study of Pármeno's case, this article observes the centrality the topic of friendship has in La Celestina, considered as means and ends to dislocate and to generate social relationships of subordination. Analyzing the ideas on friendship of this character, which stem mainly from his debates with Celestina –but also in contrast with other characters as Calisto, Sempronio, and Areúsa– this article establishes how friendship in La Celestina is thematized as an ethic-political institution in dispute from whose rational and sensible elucidation depends the order and destiny of society.