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Twenty-five years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amitie, 1994), this edited collection gathers twenty-three critical chapters each revisiting this underappreciated text, including Derrida's Geschlecht IV, an essay excluded from the English translation.Engaging closely with Derrida's text are analyses, extensions and critiques of the work. It not only reconsiders the place this book occupies in Derrida's political philosophy but also its potential for contemporary politics, when the promises and perils of political friendship have reappeared, intertwined with both nationalist and anti-nationalist political programmes.

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"As time passes, Politics of Friendship, initially a revised version of some of Derrida's many seminars around the questions of nationalism, universalism, antagonism and alterity that continuously cross over ethics and politics, has become a central element in the interpretation of his oeuvre. It radiates in every direction and summons the deepest interrogations. This rich collection of essays, combining accurate philology and audacious contextualization, does full justice to its importance and will become a necessary companion for its readers. -- ""Etienne Balibar, author of Spinoza, the Transindividual"" The Politics of Friendship has never been more relevant at a time when being a friend seems undermined by fragmentation and a fantasy of individualism. The editors have brought together some of the most important Derrida scholars in this volume to develop critical discussions of this rich text and to remind us why we must return to it again and again. -- ""Drucilla Cornell, Emeritus Professor, Rutgers University"""

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Luke Collison, PhD Graduate, The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University London. Cillian O Fathaigh, Bill & Melinda Gates scholar, University of Cambridge. Georgios Tsagdis, Lecturer in Philosophy, Leiden University.

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