{"title":"Love your enemy? An aesthetic discourse analysis of self-transcendence in values-motivated altruism","authors":"S. Mitchell, F. Eiroa-Orosa","doi":"10.1080/23269995.2018.1511766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2018.1511766","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTInter-disciplinary academic enquiry shares the challenge to explore the social and ethical applications of research into today’s globalised but increasingly complex world. Positive psycholo...","PeriodicalId":213164,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating New Post-secular Political Space","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127820162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Friendship and the new politics: beyond community","authors":"Astrid H. M. Nordin, Graham M. Smith","doi":"10.1080/23269995.2018.1505348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2018.1505348","url":null,"abstract":"What role can friendship play in contemporary politics? This article answers this question by showing how friendship supplements one of the central tropes of modern European thought: community. It argues that both the recent phenomenon of populism and more traditional political practice rely on this trope. This results in a politics which focuses on identity and difference, inclusion and exclusion. Ultimately this form of politics seeks an immanence which is impossible to achieve. In contrast, friendship offers a new way of thinking about politics as it focuses on open-ended relations between persons based not on sameness, but otherness and difference. The article articulates five key features of this understanding of friendship: (1) that it is a relationship; (2) between self and other; (3) which exists between the friends; which is (4) extendable into a network but not a unity; and (5) it eschews all programmes or projects. In this way, friendship suggests not a project or a programme, but an ethos. This article concludes by claiming that friendship is the open-ended and ongoing encounter with the other, and its politics holds a shared space open for the potential that this encounter brings.","PeriodicalId":213164,"journal":{"name":"Cultivating New Post-secular Political Space","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115664643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}