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The Politics of Friendship (Radical Thinkers) (Radical Thinkers)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 177.62
EAN: 9781844670543
ISBN: 1844670546
Label: Verso
Manufacturer: Verso
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: January 11, 2006
Publisher: Verso
Studio: Verso
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The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future.
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Rating:  - O Friends, There Are No Friends
This book has its origins in the seminar that Jacques Derrida gave during the academic year 1988-89, as part of his late attempt to grapple with issues of political philosophy that he also deals with in his Specters of Marx. The book itself is an extended replay of the first session of the seminar, in which the French philosopher (who died in 2004) gave an overview of the themes that he would cover at more length during the year, beginning with the apostrophe: "O my friends, there are no friends" ... Read More
Rating:  - Too true to be ignored.
Some things that I have previously written about fools were undoubtedly reinforced by my earlier attempt to gain something from this book. Now that I have returned to this book with all the seriousness that creative intellectual labor demands when it is not in a good mood, my concern is with a portion of Chapter 4, "The Phantom Friend Returning (in the name of `Democracy')" stated most concisely on pages 81-82, "with neither consciousness nor memory of its compulsive droning" ... Read More
Rating: - What are friends for?
Derrida's latest book continues what has been pecieved as an 'ethical turn' in deconstruction, intiated with 1994's "Spectres of Marx," and the subesquent rich contribution of 'deconstructionists' to political and moral thinking. However, Derrida himself contends that his entire project would have been unthinkable without some form of Marxism, and I share emphatically the view of Critchley, Laclau et al that questions of ethics and politics lie at the heart of the deconstructive enterprise. ... Read More
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