Article: An Ethical Model in a Postmodem Faust: The Daemonic Parody of the Politics of Friendship in Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus.

Dysfunctional friendship has become an ethical and political dilemma in postmodernity. In the dysfunctional nature of friendship, strangeness is a crucial factor. This strangeness is the recognition of alterity and the lack of relationship of otherness to the self. In this regard, two survivors of the Holocaust offer cogent commentaries. Emmanuel Levinas describes ethics as the face-to-face response toward an other (1986) while politics survives within Hannah Arendt's insight that "every single person needs to be reconciled to a world into which [s]he was born a stranger and in which, to the extent of his distinct uniqueness, [s]he always remains a stranger" (Essays 308). ...

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