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O Friends No Friend

Haas, Andrew

Angelaki : journal of theoretical humanities, 2023-11, Vol.28 (6), p.114-122 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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Título:
O Friends No Friend
Autor: Haas, Andrew
Assuntos: Aristotle ; Derrida ; Friendship ; implication ; politics ; presence
É parte de: Angelaki : journal of theoretical humanities, 2023-11, Vol.28 (6), p.114-122
Descrição: Our concept of politics - especially democracy - presupposes a principle of friendship, but our principle of friendship comes out of an understanding of the friend. However, from the Greeks to Derrida, such relations have been dominated by a philosophy of presence and/or absence, limiting our very idea of politics and friendship. A radical break with this tradition is only possible through an other way of speaking to, thinking about, acting toward, and being a friend, and the politics thereof. The Aristotelian saying, "O friends, [there is] no friend," provides a clue - for "being" is not there, not present in the Greek, nor absent therefrom, but just implied. Then the being of the friend, and of politics (and of being), is an implication. So, if we hope to be friends, and to be political, we must think and act and speak by implication: O friends no friend, and O democrats no democracy.
Editor: Abingdon: Routledge
Idioma: Inglês

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