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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 Ref
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?
| 6840 | Derrida came to believe in the undeconstructability of justice, which cannot be relativised [Derrida, by Critchley] |
| 21936 | A community must consist of singular persons, with nothing in common [Derrida, by Glendinning] |
| 21937 | Can there be democratic friendship without us all becoming identical? [Derrida, by Glendinning] |