25 years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amitié, 1994), this edited collection gathers 23 critical chapters that revisit this underappreciated text. Engaging closely with Derrida's text, the contributors analyse, extend and critique the work.

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on the Contributors
• Welcome Friends: Reading Derrida’s Politics of Friendship
• Part I: Responses
  • 1 Who or What: Differential Friendship
  • 2 Derrida, Montaigne and the Time of Friendship
  • 3 Is There a Politics to Friendship? Derrida’s Critique of the Couple in Montaigne, Kant and Levinas
  • 4 Beyond Presence: Derrida’s Fidelity to Husserl in Politics of Friendship
  • 5 Hostility in Philosophy – Between Hegel and Heidegger
  • 6 Responding Justly to ‘the Friend’
  • 7 Another Friendship
• Part II: Echoes
  • 8 The Time of Friendship: Mourning, Survival, Spectrality
  • 9 Friendship and Fission: Personal Identity in Derrida and Parfit
  • 10 Two Structures of Friendship: On the Specular and the Spectral
  • 11 Dividing the Ear
  • 12 Narcissus as an Anti-Narcissus
  • 13 The Apparition of Feminine Alterity in Derrida’s Politics of Friendship
  • 14 The Possible Echo
• Part III: Polemics
  • 15 Political Friendships to Come? Futurity, Democracy and Citizenship
  • 16 The Rhythm of Democracy, the Pulse of Deconstruction
  • 17 Derrida, Democracy and the State of Education: Learning, by Design, Perchance
  • 18 The Law of Autoimmunity
  • 19 The Other That Accompanies Me
  • 20 Companionship, Kinship, Friendship, Readership – and ‘the Possibility of Failure’
  • 21 Interruption and Responsibility: Derrida’s Passive Decision
  • 22 The Phantasmatic Fiction: Derrida on the Ground of Politics
  • 23 Modal Aporias: Derrida on the reale Möglichkeit of Friends and Enemies in Schmitt
• Index