The book comunnity: literature, difference and the politics of friendship

Authors

  • Antonio Barros de Brito Junior Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v21i41.33435

Keywords:

Politics of friendship, Jacques Derrida, Difference, Deconstruction.

Abstract

This paper deals with the concept of friendship and its relations with both philosophy of politics and literature. First of all, the paper reviews some of Aristotle and Hannah Arendt’s works in order to reflect upon a kind of philosophy of politics that is related to the notions of consensus and friendship in favour of a Universalist conception of politics that establishes the difference between friend and enemy in the core of the political logos. Secondly, the paper approaches Jacques Derrida’s thoughts, specially those presented in his book Politiques de l’amitié, in order to consider language and the notion of difference as ways to think the aporia inherent in the relationship between friendship and politics. Finally, this work speculates on how literature can be one of the places where the politics of friendship abodes.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biography

Antonio Barros de Brito Junior, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

Professor adjunto do Departamento de Linguística, Filologia e Teoria Literária da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. Possui Licenciatura em Letras (2003), Mestrado em Teoria Literária (2006) e Doutorado em Teoria Literária (2010), todos pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas. Tem experiência na área de Letras, Linguística e Artes, com ênfase em Teoria Literária, Fundamentos e Crítica das Artes e da Literatura, Semiótica, Hermenêutica e Estética, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: Semiótica, Teoria Literária, Teoria da Vanguarda, Teoria da Interpretação do Texto Literário. Tem conhecimento da obra de Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Rancière, Charles S. Peirce, nas obras fundamentais da Fenomenologia, do Estruturalismo e da Estética do Século XX e, finalmente, nas obras romanescas e teórico-críticas de Umberto Eco.

Downloads

Published

2016-12-28

How to Cite

Barros de Brito Junior, A. (2016). The book comunnity: literature, difference and the politics of friendship. Gragoatá, 21(41). https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v21i41.33435

Issue

Vol. 21 No. 41 (2016): Literature Studies

Section

Literature Articles

License

Authors who publish in Gragoatá agree to the following terms:

The authors retain the rights and give the journal the right to the first publication, simultaneously subject to a Creative Commons license CC-BY-NC 4.0, which allows sharing by third parties with due mention to the author and the first publication by Gragoatá.

Authors may enter into additional and separate contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the published version of the work (for example, posting it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with recognition of its initial publication in Gragoatá.

 

Licença Creative Commons
Gragoatá is licensed under a Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.