Andrew Benjamin
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239659
- eISBN:
- 9781846314087
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239659.003.0010
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter contains an essay by Andrew Benjamin that tackles the problem of writing about the history of the post-Holocaust image of the Jews in relation to the concepts of friendship. The reason ...
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This chapter contains an essay by Andrew Benjamin that tackles the problem of writing about the history of the post-Holocaust image of the Jews in relation to the concepts of friendship. The reason for the usage of friendship is that it opens up a way to the political and intimate form of particularity. Benjamin uses literature and philosophy, (particularly Lessing's Die Juden and Nathan der Weise), to determine the markers of friendship to answer Benjamin's questions: What can be made of friendship? What is it that marks out friendship? The essay concludes by explaining that politics in friendships is impossible in certain perspectives and that intimacy requires continuity, and that all that friendship can comprise of is friendship itself.Less
This chapter contains an essay by Andrew Benjamin that tackles the problem of writing about the history of the post-Holocaust image of the Jews in relation to the concepts of friendship. The reason for the usage of friendship is that it opens up a way to the political and intimate form of particularity. Benjamin uses literature and philosophy, (particularly Lessing's Die Juden and Nathan der Weise), to determine the markers of friendship to answer Benjamin's questions: What can be made of friendship? What is it that marks out friendship? The essay concludes by explaining that politics in friendships is impossible in certain perspectives and that intimacy requires continuity, and that all that friendship can comprise of is friendship itself.
