The Politics of Friendship

The Politics of Friendship
Author :
Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 321
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781788738590
ISBN-13 : 1788738594
Rating : 4/5 (594 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Politics of Friendship by : Jacques Derrida

Download or read book The Politics of Friendship written by Jacques Derrida and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most influential of contemporary philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores the idea of friendship—and its political consequences, past and future—through writings by Aristotle, Nietzsche, Cicero, and more. Until relatively recently, Jacques Derrida was seen by many as nothing more than the high priest of Deconstruction, by turns stimulating and fascinating, yet always somewhat disengaged from the central political questions of our time. Or so it seemed. Derrida’s “political turn,” marked especially by the appearance of Specters of Marx, has surprised some and delighted others. In The Politics of Friendship Derrida renews and enriches this orientation through an examination of the political history of the idea of friendship pursued down the ages. Derrida’s thoughts are haunted throughout the book by the strange and provocative address attributed to Aristotle, “my friends, there is no friend” and its inversions by later philosophers such as Montaigne, Kant, Nietzsche, Schmitt and Blanchot. The exploration allows Derrida to recall and restage the ways in which all the oppositional couples of Western philosophy and political thought—friendship and enmity, private and public life—have become madly and dangerously unstable. At the same time he dissects genealogy itself, the familiar and male-centered notion of fraternity and the virile virtue whose authority has gone unquestioned in our culture of friendship and our models of democracy The future of the political, for Derrida, becomes the future of friends, the invention of a radically new friendship, of a deeper and more inclusive democracy. This remarkable book, his most profoundly important for many years, offers a challenging and inspiring vision of that future.


The Politics of Friendship Related Books

The Politics of Friendship
Language: en
Pages: 321
Authors: Jacques Derrida
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: Verso Books

GET EBOOK

The most influential of contemporary philosophers, Jacques Derrida, explores the idea of friendship—and its political consequences, past and future—through
Big Friendship
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Aminatou Sow
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-07-06 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

GET EBOOK

A close friendship is one of the most influential and important relationships a human life can contain. Anyone will tell you that! But for all the rosy sentimen
Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship
Language: en
Pages: 588
Authors: Donna McDaniel
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Quakerpress of Fgc

GET EBOOK

Donna McDaniel and Vanessa Julye document three centuries of Quakers who were committed to ending racial injustices yet, with few exceptions, hesitated to invit
Black and Buddhist
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Cheryl A. Giles
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-08 - Publisher: Shambhala Publications

GET EBOOK

Gold Nautilus Book Award Winner Leading African American Buddhist teachers offer lessons on racism, resilience, spiritual freedom, and the possibility of a trul
Friendship as Social Justice Activism
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Niharika Banerjea
Categories: Friendship
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018 - Publisher: SEA BOATING

GET EBOOK

Friendship as Social Justice Activism brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love, and desire as kinetics for