Contemporary Conversations: Alina Stefanescu on Derrida's The Politics of Friendship and My Heresies

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Alina Stefanescu discusses Jacques Derrida's The Politics of Friendship and her poetry collection My Heresies.

The poet, Alina Stefanescu, joins us for a freewheeling discussion of Jacques Derrida's classic work of politico-ethical deconstruction, The Politics of Friendship, and her new poetry collection, My Heresies. In The Politics of Friendship, Derrida ruminates on the interrelationship between our inherited concepts of friendship, fraternity, and democracy, and the distance we have yet to travel in order to work through the inadequacies of our conceptual vocabularies and the living content they e...

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Hosts: Charles, Devin

Guest: Alina Stefanescu

Topics covered

• philosophy
• friendship
• democracy
• poetry
• deconstruction

Keywords

• Alina Stefanescu
• Jacques Derrida
• The Politics of Friendship
• My Heresies
• poetry
• friendship
• democracy

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Books & works: The Politics of Friendship, My Heresies

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