{"product_id":"the-politics-of-friendship-9781788738590","title":"The Politics of Friendship","description":"\u003cb\u003eInfluential exploration of the idea of friendship and its political consequences.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e O, my friends, there is no friend.\u003c\/i\u003e The most influential of contemporary philosophers explores the idea of friendship and its political consequences, past and future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUntil 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 \u003ci\u003eSpecters of Marx\u003c\/i\u003e, has surprised some and delighted others. In \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Friendship \u003c\/i\u003eDerrida renews and enriches this orientation through an examination of the political history of the idea of friendship pursued down the ages. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDerrida'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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11757378\"\u003eJacques Derrida\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781788738590\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1788738594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI005000\"\u003eEthics \u0026amp; Moral Philosophy\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FAM\"\u003eFamily \u0026amp; Relationships\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FAM021000\"\u003eFriendship\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-PHI\"\u003ePhilosophy\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-PHI019000\"\u003ePolitical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJacques Derrida \u003c\/b\u003e(1930-2004) was born in Algeria and has been called the most famous philosopher of our time. He was Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. English translations of his work include \u003ci\u003eGiven Time\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Blind\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpecters of Marx, The Politics of Friendship, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Gift of Death\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42682448838893,"sku":"9781788738590","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_d4a2091d-9c67-4009-b0c2-b35eb8de39fc.jpg?v=1649722184","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/es\/products\/the-politics-of-friendship-9781788738590","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}