Graham M. Smith is a British political theorist. Currently he is a lecturer at University of Leeds. Smith is known for his research on friendship and its relation to the understanding of the political. He previously taught at Lancaster University and is the co-editor of the online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal AMITY: The Journal of Friendship Studies.
''Defined too widely friendship includes too much: everything becomes friendship (and so nothing is really friendship). Defined too narrowly friendship is specified out of existence: nothing can be considered an instance of friendship.''
Şölen - Dostluk kitabıyla birlikte değerlendirmek gerekiyor. Çünkü yazar Graham Smith, dönemin politik ve sosyokültürel yapısına binaen yazılmış ve dönemin felsefi sorunlarını bünyesinde taşıyan Platon'un bu eserine bir güncelleme getirerek günümüz sosyopolitik ilişkileri,