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Politics of Friendship by Jacques. Derrida (2006, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherVerso Books
ISBN-101844670546
ISBN-139781844670543
eBay Product ID (ePID)48419941
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Book TitlePolitics of Friendship
Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2006
TopicMovements / Deconstruction, Individual Philosophers, General, Criticism, Political
GenrePhilosophy
AuthorJacques. Derrida
Book SeriesRadical Thinkers Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.4 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5 in
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Dewey Edition22
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Reviews'eoeDerrida has never written more illuminatingly on Aristotle, Nietzsche and Heidegger than he does here.'e�, "Derrida has never written more illuminatingly on Aristotle, Nietzsche and Heidegger than he does here."- Choice
Dewey Decimal177.62
SynopsisO, 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 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., "Derrida has never written more illuminatingly on Aristotle, Nietszche and Heidegger than he does here."- Choice, "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 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.
LC Classification NumberB2430.D483P6613 2005
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