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From political friendship to befriending the world

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Date
08/2015
Author
Hayden, Patrick
Keywords
Hannah Arendt
Friendship
Political
Mutuality
Recognition
World
JZ International relations
Political Science and International Relations
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Abstract
Political friendship is typically portrayed as a dyadic relationship. In this traditional model, friendship is conceived as a positive intersubjective experience of relation-to-self and relation-to-other, assuming the reciprocity and equality characteristic of symmetrical relations of recognition. This essay explores an alternative, triadic model of political friendship suggested by the work of Hannah Arendt. Arendt makes the claim, at odds with most modern accounts, that “politics is not so much about human beings as it is about the world that comes into being between them and endures beyond them.” I suggest that the dyadic model of political friendship is incomplete; a more adequate paradigm would foreground triadic relations of interest, concern and care for the phenomenal world itself, conceived as the quasi-objective intermediary of human artifice. As a “public thing,” a shared world is a necessary condition for intersubjective friendship and therefore is deserving of a properly political mode of acknowledgement and friendship in its own right.
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Hayden , P 2015 , ' From political friendship to befriending the world ' , The European Legacy , vol. 20 , no. 7 , pp. 745-764 . https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2015.1069082
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The European Legacy
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2015.1069082
ISSN
1084-8770
Type
Journal article
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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The European Legacy on 16/07/2015, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10848770.2015.1069082
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/10117

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