Tag: <span>Octaviano Arruda</span>
Friend and Enemy Revised: Derrida and The Politics of Friendship
In one of his most famous book, Der Begriff des Politischen, Carl Schmitt wrote that the one of the essential debate on political refers to the differentiation between friend and enemy. This affirmation has been repeated over the decades. Nonetheless, Jacques Derrida has demonstrated a crucial mistake on Schmitt’s notion of the political. In his...
State of Exception and Literature
In this panel, I seek to demonstrate a new dimension to understand literature and its connection to law. In the title of my paper, I refer to “state of exception’,“ an expression that lately has been overused. In my hunch, we may make out from a different perspective. To put it in more blunt terms:...