Critical Friendship After the Pandemic

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12947342
AutoresJoelle M Abi-Rached (0000-0003-2061-9209, Harvard University Press, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Páginas170-191
Fecha de publicación2023-12-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFoucault Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1832-5203 • E-ISSN: 1832-5203
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.22439/fs.i35.7079
OpenAlexW4390614987
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas21

Are critique and the “art of governing” antithetical? The aim of this article is to examine this tension that was laid bare by the Covid-19 pandemic by introducing “critical friendship” as a conceptual framework for a constructive interdisciplinary engagement with science in a post-pandemic era. It does so by drawing on several works and insights: (i) Michel Foucault’s notion of “critical attitude” as well as his assessment of philosophy as providing a “diagnosis of the present;” (ii) Bruno Latour and colleagues’ idea of a “critical zone” or what I call a horizontal epistemology of critique; (iii) Aristotle’s notion of friendship as being necessary for the “common good;” and finally (iv) Jacques Derrida’s interpretation of the messianic character of friendship in the constitution of progressive democracies. Whereas critical theory has been described as either “explanatory-diagnostic” or “emancipatory-utopian,” a critical friendship approach aims to be both diagnostic and emancipatory in an age of uncertainty and democratic backsliding

Character (mathematics · Constitution · Constructive · Critical theory · Critical thinking · Democracy · Epistemology · Friendship · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty