The Friends of Politics
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Master's
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Master of Arts
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Department of English and Film Studies
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English
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In this study, I examine the affirmation of the politics of friendship, offering a critique of the deployment of it as a means of struggle in contemporary politics. This examination is an attempt to explore the ways in which the affirmative development of friendship as a political relation have championed its positive content at the expense of its negative characteristics. Through the critique of Aristotle’s discourse of friendship, which holds up an exemplary form of friendship as its project, I offer a genealogy that incorporates the negative, specifically the not-friend, as an alternative to the exemplarity that so often characterizes the admirable in friendship.
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This thesis is made available by the University of Alberta Libraries with permission of the copyright owner solely for non-commercial purposes. This thesis, or any portion thereof, may not otherwise be copied or reproduced without the written consent of the copyright owner, except to the extent permitted by Canadian copyright law.
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