By Michael A. Kaplan
ISBN-10: 0817316892
ISBN-13: 9780817316891
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By the same token, this “worldly” form of judgment secures her “cool” model of friendship, which can in turn be juxtaposed with what in retrospect appears as mere camaraderie or fraternity among German Jews. One heuristic advantage of approaching Arendt’s political theory through the problem of friendship is that doing so sheds light on key ambiguities in her work. 33 Arendt views race as a means of staging the (false) appearance of a social bond in capitalist societies whose members are deracinated by Hobbesian competition.
Friendship would also supply a distinct, unequivocally political, criterion of judgment, entailing a reflective decision (modeled on Kant’s aesthetic judgment) concerning the maintenance of the world of inter-est as a constitutive part of every exercise of judgment. The test this bond is designed to pass is that of furnishing compelling, yet still democratically responsible, reasons to side with the Jews in Hitler’s Germany (or indeed to preclude Hitler’s rise altogether), reasons that cannot Imagining Citizenship as Friendship / 39 be derived from universal moral algorithms and are more likely to result in political solidarity than is affective attachment alone.
To a significant degree, this ambivalence inheres in Arendt’s investment in friendship. The underlying question concerns the passage from a personal attachment to vigorous engagement with political reality. On the one hand, friendship seems to depoliticize social relations as friends withdraw into personally fulfilling but socially oblivious intimacy, which ought to be denounced for complicity with oppression and abdication of political responsibility. On the other hand, friendship, insofar as it cultivates the capacity to criticize without abandoning and to assist without abrogating autonomy, seems to incubate a sort of germinal mode of publicness that ought to be defended as the last hope against oppression.
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