Critically engages with Jacques Derrida's Politics of Friendship and with the limits of friendship as a political concept Reconsiders the importance of this relatively understudied key text in Derrida's oeuvre Includes two contributions on Geschlect IV, 'Heidegger's Ear: Philopolemology', published in the French edition but excluded from the English translation Resonates with issues in contemporary politics such as nationalist and anti-nationalist political programmes Offers an interdisciplinary perspective from philosophy, comparative literature and French studies Brings together early career, established and emeritus scholars including Peggy Kamuf, Isabelle Alfandary, Timothy Secret and Pheng Cheah 25 years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amiti , 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. They reconsider the place this book occupies in Derrida's political philosophy and its potential for contemporary politics, when the promises and perils of political friendship have reappeared.

Twenty-five years after the publication of Derrida's Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l'amitie, 1994), this edited collection gathers twenty-three critical chapters each revisiting this underappreciated text, including Derrida's Geschlecht IV, an essay excluded from the English translation.Engaging closely with Derrida's text are analyses, extensions and critiques of the work. It not only reconsiders the place this book occupies in Derrida's political philosophy but also its potential for contemporary politics, when the promises and perils of political friendship have reappeared, intertwined with both nationalist and anti-nationalist political programmes.

Honouring the memory of the late Bernard Stiegler, this edited collection presents a broad spectrum of contributions that provide a complex and coherently articulated image of Bernard Stiegler's thought which reached beyond the boundaries of academic, artistic and experimental techno-scientific enclaves where he had been originally received. Stiegler was a contemporary philosopher whose work reflected multiple different facets including theorization, social diagnosis, planning, practical and territorial experimentation, politics, as well as aesthetics. Placing emphasis on this multi-dimensional nature, the book separates itself into parts, its first section focusing on the conditions of human life in general, and its foundational intermittence. These discussions are then followed by fascinating engagements with the philosophical approach of organology, explorations of practical organological propositions that Stiegler has set out, and the thinker’s reinterpretation of Husserl's description of internal time consciousness. Through detailed examinations of Stiegler’s remarks on spirit, philosophy and technicity, as well as a comprehensive account of its unifying themes, the essays in this volume highlight the ways in which Stiegler opens up the issue of the catastrophic epoch in which we live, and the future of art, work, philosophy, and spirit that is emerging from that epoch.