The lack of posts over the last two days has been due to a federal election in Australia on Saturday. I did my duty as a political functionary in deliverying materials on Friday and then handing out how to vote cards.
The sad news. Derrida died from aggressive pancreatic cancer.
Whilst handing out how to vote cards all day I kept on thinking about the politics of friendship and the friend/enemy distinction. Derrida wrote a book about the politics of friendship in the late 1990s. There he explored the play of difference within the concept of friendship and argued that politics does not begin with the identification of the enemy -- as with Carl Schmitt -- but with the identification of the friend.
A discussion between Derrida and Geoffrey Bennington. An article here.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at October 10, 2004 12:00 AM | TrackBack