Political Cohesion, Friendship and Hostility
The article’s main question arises from the return to friendship in current political thinking, communitarian as well as liberal: can friendship be the emotional foundation of social-political cohesion in a modern state? The article examines the radical normative approach to civil friendship propose...
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| Formato: | Artigo |
| Idioma: | English |
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The University of Akureyri
2019-09-01
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| Colecção: | Nordicum-Mediterraneum |
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| Acesso em linha: | https://nome.unak.is/wordpress/volume-14-no-2-2019/conference-proceedings-volume-14-no-2-2019/__trashed/ |
| Resumo: | The article’s main question arises from the return to friendship in current political thinking, communitarian as well as liberal: can friendship be the emotional foundation of social-political cohesion in a modern state? The article examines the radical normative approach to civil friendship proposed by Saint Just, Carl Schmitt’s thesis on friend/enemy and Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction thereof. The article searches backwards, returning to modern thought, and reformulates the initial question by examining Spinoza’s concept of friendship. Rather than proposing other emotional relationships for uniting and directing a political community, it is essential to ask how to fight the “sad political passions”. |
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| ISSN: | 1670-6242 1670-6242 |