The politics of friendship
/ Jacques Derrida ; translated by George Collins
. — London : Verso, 2020.
xii, 308 p. ; 20 cm.
Foreword -- Oligarchies: naming, enumerating, counting -- Loving in friendship: Perhaps - the noun and the adverb -- This mad 'truth': the just name of friendship -- The phantom friend returning (in the name of 'democracy') -- on absolute hostility: the cause of philosophy and the spectre of the political -- Oath, conjuration, fraternization or the 'armed' question -- He who accompanies me -- Recoils -- 'In human language, fraternity...' -- 'For the first time in the history of humanity'
Derrida addresses the concepts and meanings of friendship with a philosophical interpretation