The Politics of Friendship by Jacques Derrida

Author:Jacques Derrida
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781789602623
Publisher: Verso Books

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* Further on, Montaigne will speak again of ‘the seam [couture] that joins [souls] together’, on the page preceding the exposition on perfect friendship, namely friendship among men: ‘brotherly harmony’ is a ‘solder binding brothers together’; the vocabulary of the artifice, seam and solder, are as important as – if not more important than – fraternity itself. Montaigne insists on this point: friendship is not and must not be a natural fraternity, but a fraternity of alliance, adoption, election, oath. Why, then, this ‘natural’ figure? Why this adherence or this reference again to a natural bond, if one has set out to de-naturalize? Why does the natural schema remain? This is our question.

* Nicoimachean Ethics, VIII, 1, 1115a 22–6; Politics, II, 4, 1262b 7–9.

† Nicomachean Ethics, VIII, 1, 1155a 26–7: ‘when men are friends they have no need of justice, while when they are just they need friendship as well’, p. 1825 [revised Oxford translation].

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