"Published in English only a year after the equally important Specters of Marx, The Politics of Friendship develops two crucial concepts (passive decision and teleiopoesis) that align Derrida with the activist formalism of recent reading practices emphasizing the agency of emotions. To my knowledge, it is also the only text of Derrida’s to engage Blake. Although his remarks on the poet are brief, they incisively identify Blake as a forerunner of the deconstructive Marx he is eager to promote."