{"product_id":"the-politics-of-friendship-radical-thinkers","title":"The Politics of Friendship (Radical Thinkers)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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. Derridas 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.  Derridas 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 thoughtfriendship and enmity  private and public lifehave 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44967160414261,"sku":"ByrdShop_1844670546","price":68.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781844670543.jpg?v=1770639517","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-politics-of-friendship-radical-thinkers","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}