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In Praise of Friendship

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Zero Books
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm

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We are living in the age of decline, or at least crisis, of what might be called a 'culture of friendship'. Our existence as social beings is constricted in a triangle whose three apices are: the alienated work, subjected to the principle of ruthless competition, the closed, isolated nuclear family and the national or 'cultural' community constituted in the act of aggression towards a common enemy (the 'alien'). It is precisely this constriction that makes the culture of friendship decline, and vice versa: it is this decline that seems to make any other way of life increasingly harder to imagine. However, if we are to resist the temptation of returning to the logic of clashing, violent particularisms and defend ourselves against fascist or fascistoid tendencies that appear on the political horizon, some kind of opening must occur, we must once again be able to experiment with new forms of being together, despite divisions resulting from territorial and cultural identities or family relations. What we need is a renaissance of the culture of friendship. Originally published in Poland, this edition from Zero Books is the first English language publication of In Praise of Friendship.
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  • Title

    In Praise of Friendship

  • Author

    Micha? Herer

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Zero Books

  • Published

    March 2021

  • Weight

    118g

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9781789043891

  • ISBN-10

    1789043891

  • Eden Code

    5264297

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