Derrida's Politics of Friendship
Amity and Enmity
Published on 15. November 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
328 pages
978-1-4744-8674-3 (ISBN)
Description
25 years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amitie, 1994), this edited collection gathers 23 critical chapters that revisit this underappreciated text. Engaging closely with Derrida's text, the contributors analyse, extend and critique the work. They reconsider the place this book occupies in Derrida's political philosophy and its potential for contemporary politics, when the promises and perils of political friendship have reappeared.
Reviews / Votes
The Politics of Friendship has never been more relevant at a time when being a friend seems undermined by fragmentation and a fantasy of individualism. The editors have brought together some of the most important Derrida scholars in this volume to develop critical discussions of this rich text and to remind us why we must return to it again and again. * Drucilla Cornell, Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University * As time passes, Politics of Friendship, initially a revised version of some of Derrida's many seminars around the questions of nationalism, universalism, antagonism and alterity that continuously cross over ethics and politics, has become a central element in the interpretation of his oeuvre. It radiates in every direction and summons the deepest interrogations. This rich collection of essays, combining accurate philology and audacious contextualization, does full justice to its importance and will become a necessary companion for its readers. * Etienne Balibar, author of <i>Spinoza, the Transindividual</i> *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
458 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-8674-3 (9781474486743)
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Persons
Luke Collison is a recent PhD Graduate from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London. Cillian O Fathaigh is Assistant Professor and Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellow in Philosophy at the Jagiellonian University, Poland. Prior to that, he was a Lecturer at King's College London (England) and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He previously completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge (England), where he was a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Scholar. He currently works at the intersection of political philosophy, European philosophy, and the philosophy of the digital, with a particular focus on the concept of institutions, and his work has been published in prestigious international journals, including Philosophy and Social Criticism; Journal of Medicine and Philosophy; Angelaki; Paragraph; and Derrida Today. He is co-editor of Subjective Agency and Poststructuralism (Routledge, 2025-with Gavin Rae); Derrida's Politics of Friendship: Amity and Enmity (Edinburgh University Press, 2022-with Luke Collison and Georgios Tsagdis); and Transformation in Contemporary French Theory (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming-with Emma Ingala and Gavin Rae). Georgios Tsagdis is Lecturer in Philosophy at Leiden University and a Lecturer at the Architectural Association.
Content
Welcome Friends: Reading Derrida's Politics of FriendshipLuke Collison, Cillian O Fathaigh and Georgios Tsagdis
Part I: Responses
1. Who or What: Differential FriendshipGeorgios Tsagdis
2. Derrida, Montaigne and the Time of FriendshipJennifer Rushworth
3. Is there a Politics to Friendship? Derrida's Critique of the Couple, in Montaigne, Kant and LevinasCillian O Fathaigh
4. Beyond Presence: Derrida's Fidelity to Husserl in Politics of FriendshipGiovanni Menegalle
5. Hostility in Philosophy - Between Hegel and HeideggerSusanna Lindberg
6. Responding Justly to 'the Friend'Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly
7. Another FriendshipPheng Cheah
Part II: Echoes
8. The Time of Friendship: Mourning, Survival, SpectralityRozemund Uljee
9. Friendship and Fission: Personal Identity in Derrida and ParfitKit Barton
10. Two Structures of Friendship: On the Specular and the SpectralCathrine Bjornholt Michaelsen
11. Dividing the EarIsabelle Alfandary
12. Narcissus as an Anti-NarcissusTimothy Secret
13. The apparition of feminine alterity in Derrida's Politics of FriendshipDavid Ventura
14. The Possible EchoPeggy Kamuf
Part III: Polemics
15. Political Friendships to Come? - Futurity, Democracy and CitizenshipRosine Kelz
16. The Rhythm of Democracy, The Pulse of DeconstructionNaomi Waltham-Smith
17. Derrida, Democracy and the State of Education: Learning, by Design, PerchanceAllan Parsons
18. The Law of AutoimmunityChris Lloyd
19. The Other that Accompanies MeNicole Anderson
20. Companionship, Kinship, Friendship, Readership - and 'the Possibility of Failure'Thomas Clement Mercier
21. Interruption and Responsibility: Derrida's Passive DecisionMauro Senatore
22. The Phantasmatic Fiction: Derrida on the Ground of PoliticsGavin Rae
23. Modal Aporias: Derrida on the reale Moeglichkeit of Friends and Enemies in SchmittLuke Collison
Part I: Responses
1. Who or What: Differential FriendshipGeorgios Tsagdis
2. Derrida, Montaigne and the Time of FriendshipJennifer Rushworth
3. Is there a Politics to Friendship? Derrida's Critique of the Couple, in Montaigne, Kant and LevinasCillian O Fathaigh
4. Beyond Presence: Derrida's Fidelity to Husserl in Politics of FriendshipGiovanni Menegalle
5. Hostility in Philosophy - Between Hegel and HeideggerSusanna Lindberg
6. Responding Justly to 'the Friend'Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly
7. Another FriendshipPheng Cheah
Part II: Echoes
8. The Time of Friendship: Mourning, Survival, SpectralityRozemund Uljee
9. Friendship and Fission: Personal Identity in Derrida and ParfitKit Barton
10. Two Structures of Friendship: On the Specular and the SpectralCathrine Bjornholt Michaelsen
11. Dividing the EarIsabelle Alfandary
12. Narcissus as an Anti-NarcissusTimothy Secret
13. The apparition of feminine alterity in Derrida's Politics of FriendshipDavid Ventura
14. The Possible EchoPeggy Kamuf
Part III: Polemics
15. Political Friendships to Come? - Futurity, Democracy and CitizenshipRosine Kelz
16. The Rhythm of Democracy, The Pulse of DeconstructionNaomi Waltham-Smith
17. Derrida, Democracy and the State of Education: Learning, by Design, PerchanceAllan Parsons
18. The Law of AutoimmunityChris Lloyd
19. The Other that Accompanies MeNicole Anderson
20. Companionship, Kinship, Friendship, Readership - and 'the Possibility of Failure'Thomas Clement Mercier
21. Interruption and Responsibility: Derrida's Passive DecisionMauro Senatore
22. The Phantasmatic Fiction: Derrida on the Ground of PoliticsGavin Rae
23. Modal Aporias: Derrida on the reale Moeglichkeit of Friends and Enemies in SchmittLuke Collison