This article is useful for any of you seeking to bring dimensions of gender into Derrida’s discussions of political community, specifically the impasse between universality and singularity, and the undecidability of justice. For Diane Perpich, critical engagement with the notion of sexual difference in relation to political desire opens up possibilities to move beyond (if [...]
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D. Perpich: Universality, Singularity, and Sexual Difference: Reflections on Political Community
Posted in Politics of Friendship, friendship, justice, tagged Luce Irigaray, Political Community, Political Desire, sexual difference, singularity, universality on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Why politics exists..a quote by Jacques Ranciere
Posted in Politics of Friendship, aporia, worth reading on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Politics exists because those who have no right to be counted as speaking beings makes themselves of some account, setting up a community by placing in common a wrong that is nothing more than this very confrontation, the contradiction of two worlds in a single world: the world where they are and the world where [...]
Transcendental, Empirical
Posted in Politics of Friendship, closure, empirical, transcendental on October 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I wanted to write a short summary of our concluding conversation from 17 October. We concluded with a brief treatment of the motifs in the “Absolute Hostility” chapter from The Politics of Friendship, many of which concern a recurring issue in Derrida’s work: the relation of the transcendental and the empirical. As a matter of [...]
Our Adversaries, Our Friends
Posted in Politics of Friendship, friendship on October 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reprinted, reposted from The Public Humanist (blog of the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities)
I’ve been teaching about friendship for the past couple of weeks – Jacques Derrida’s utterly enigmatic Politics of Friendship, to be specific – so I was thrilled to read a reflection by my cross-campus colleague Robert Meagher on where friendship might lead [...]
The reciprocal moment in friendship
Posted in Aristotle, Politics of Friendship, animals on October 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Hopefully this isn’t too off-topic, but I thought this might be an interesting point of discussion. I wanted to re-visit a question that was brought up last week…someone had asked whether or not we could be friends with animals
Class Today
Posted in Aristotle, Politics of Friendship, love, tagged confusions on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, so I was really confused in class today about the first essay in The Politics of Friendship. I was wondering if people could try to help clarify what was said (or say new things) in response to my queries.
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