Friendship Fictions: The Rhetoric of Citizenship in the Liberal Imaginary

ISBN-13: 9780817359386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 268 str.

Michael A. Kaplan

Opis

Friendship serves as a metaphor for citizenship and mirrors the individual's participation in civic life. Friendship Fictions unravels key implications of this metaphor and demonstrates how it can transform liberal culture into a more just and democratic way of life.

Spis treści

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Rhetoricizing Liberalism
• 1. Imagining Citizenship as Friendship
• 2. Friendship and the Politics of Community: The Big Chill
• 3. Friendship, Rebel-Citizenship, and the Feminist Critique of Liberalism: Thelma & Louise
• 4. Liberalism, Friendship, and the Predicament of Cybernetic Sociality: Lost in Translation
• 5. Race, Friendship, and the Speculative Politics of Infinite Debt: Smoke
• Conclusion: The Friendship Supplement and the Rule of Allegory
• Notes
• Index