Single Idea 21937

[catalogued under 24. Political Theory / A. Basis of a State / 1. A People / c. A unified people]

Full Idea

The question is whether it is possible to think of a politics of democratic friendship that could free itself from the terrifying threat of homogenization.

Gist of Idea

Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical?

Source

report of Jacques Derrida (later work [1980]) by Simon Glendinning - Derrida: A Very Short Introduction 7

Book Reference

Glendinning,Simon: 'Derrida: a Very Short Intro' [OUP 2011], p.89


A Reaction

Being terrified of people becoming all the same links Derrida to existentialist individualism. Is he just a linguistic existentialist, trying to free us from the tyranny of linguistic uniformity?