Book Review: Other Areas: Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order
| Date | 01 May 2013 |
| Author | Magdalena Zolkos |
| DOI | 10.1111/1478-9302.12016_29 |
| Published date | 01 May 2013 |
| Subject Matter | Book Review |
P O L I T I C A L T H E O R Y
The two books under review are keenly aware of the
the principle of autonomous value; makes it instrumen-
vagaries of friendship’s philosophical history, while sig-
tal (like Nietzsche); deploys it rather as a networking
nalling its potential for modified re-emergence in late
strategy – in which ‘friend’ essentially reduces to
modernity. Schwarzenbach’s On Civic Friendship (here-
‘enemy of my enemy’. These middle chapters are FP’s
after, CF) ambitiously argues for friendship’s re-entry
most perceptive and valuable. For us, they flag the need
into the canon of principles undergirding modern
for further such studies – as of Mill, Renan, Emerson,
(liberal) states, success in which would radically trans-
James, Freud, Dewey and Buber, inter alia. Judging by
form the study and practice of politics. CF re-examines
Schwarzenbach and Smith, re-entry of the friendship
the history of political thought from the perspective of
principle is imminent.
the civic friendship it has lost, paying major attention
Preston King
to Aristotle, Locke, Marx and Rawls, and less to others
(Morehouse College, Atlanta)
like Hegel, Kant and Schmitt (not ‘Schmidt’). The
major social movements CF features are liberalism and
Jewish Memory and the Cosmopolitan Order by
feminism; socialism enters a diminuendo; multicultural-
Natan Sznaider. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011.
ism is absent.
205pp., £15.99, ISBN 9780745647968
The core of CF’s argument, and of its genuine origi-
nality, is that Locke’s theory of private ownership is
The subject of Natan Sznaider’s book is the formation
pervasive and wrong. Labour does not legitimate
of the cosmopolitan ethos in the European Jewish
private ownership. Rather, the principle of private
tradition and memory, before and after the Holocaust.
ownership
legitimates
(and...
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