{"product_id":"philosophy-after-friendship-gregg-lambert-9781517901004","title":"Philosophy After Friendship: Deleuze's Conceptual Personae","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe friend, the enemy, the stranger, the refugee or deportee, and the survivor. In singular and provocative fashion, Gregg Lambert's \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy after Friendship \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces us to the key social personae that have populated modern political philosophy. Drawing on the philosophies of Deleuze and Derrida, as well as the work of Indo-European linguist Émile Benveniste, Lambert constructs a genealogy to demonstrate how political thought has been structured by the emergence of such \"conceptual personae.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy after Friendship\u003c\/i\u003e is the persona of the friend, together with the idea of friendship, on which the democratic ideals of consensus, fraternity, and equality are based. Lambert argues that the vitality of this conceptual persona, originated by the Greeks, has been exhausted by centuries of war. In fact, we might today be witnessing the overturning of an earlier philosophical idealism that saw friendship as the destination of the political and, in its place, the emergence of a nonphilosophical understanding that has set perpetual war as the ultimate ground from which future thinking of the political must depart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his Conclusion, Lambert proposes a truly \"postwar philosophy\" that takes as its first principle the idea of perpetual peace, which would require nothing less than a complete reevaluation of the goals of any future political philosophy, if not the meaning of philosophy itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregg Lambert\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517901006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517901004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/20\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Gregg Lambert","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088506171647,"sku":"9781517901004","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_931d6625-dc8f-468f-86dc-50022d975751.jpg?v=1769105142","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/philosophy-after-friendship-gregg-lambert-9781517901004","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}