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The Politics of Friendship - Radical Thinkers
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Philosophical musings on friendship and political impact.
If you're intrigued by the intersection of personal relationships and societal structures, Derrida's "The Politics of Friendship" might resonate with you. It's a reflective dive into how friendship has shaped political ideologies and vice versa, bringing a unique perspective that could change how you perceive your connections and communal responsibilities.
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The Politics of Friendship - Radical Thinkers
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ISBN: 9781844670543
Publisher: Verso
Date of Publication: 2006-01-17
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 3.96
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Influential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences. “O, my friends, there is no friend.” The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future. 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
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Philosophical musings on friendship and political impact.
If you're intrigued by the intersection of personal relationships and societal structures, Derrida's "The Politics of Friendship" might resonate with you. It's a reflective dive into how friendship has shaped political ideologies and vice versa, bringing a unique perspective that could change how you perceive your connections and communal responsibilities.
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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