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Philosophy After Friendship

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Description for Philosophy After Friendship Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 25. .

The friend, the enemy, the stranger, the refugee or deportee, and the survivor. In singular and provocative fashion, Gregg Lambert’s Philosophy after Friendship introduces us to the key social personae that have populated modern political philosophy. Drawing on the philosophies of Deleuze and Derrida, as well as the work of Indo-European linguist Émile Benveniste, Lambert constructs a genealogy to demonstrate how political thought has been structured by the emergence of such “conceptual personae.” 

At the center of Philosophy after Friendship is the persona of the friend, together with the idea of friendship, on which the democratic ideals of consensus, fraternity, and ... Read more

In his Conclusion, Lambert proposes a truly “postwar philosophy” that takes as its first principle the idea of perpetual peace, which would require nothing less than a complete reevaluation of the goals of any future political philosophy, if not the meaning of philosophy itself.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9781517901004
SKU
V9781517901004
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About Gregg Lambert
Gregg Lambert is Dean’s Professor of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University. His numerous books include In Search of a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical Expressionism (Minnesota, 2012).

Reviews for Philosophy After Friendship
"This is a timely, relevant book. By drawing from Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, especially their concept of friendship, Gregg Lambert offers an important reconceptualization of Kant's essay on perpetual peace, and in doing so he sets the stage for a post-war philosophy that remains true to Kant's ideal."—Jeffrey Bell, Southeastern Louisiana University "Readers expecting a book ‘about’ Deleuze in a ... Read more

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