Sovereignty and its other : toward the dejustification of violence / Dimitris Vardoulakis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vardoulakis, Dimitris.

Series:

Commonalities.

Commonalities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sovereignty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this new book, Dimitris Vardoulakis asks how it is possible to think of a politics that is not commensurate with sovereignty. For such a politics, he argues, sovereignty is defined not in terms of the exception but as the different ways in which violence is justified. Vardoulakis shows how it is possible to deconstruct the various justifications of violence. Such dejustifications can take place only by presupposing an other to sovereignty, which Vardoulakis identifies with radical democracy. In doing so, Sovereignty and Its Other puts forward both a novel critique of sovereignty and an original philosophical theory of democratic practice.

Contents:

Preamble, or, Power and its relations

1. Judgment and justification

2. The vicissitude of participation: on ancient sovereignty

3. The propinquity of nature: absolute sovereignty

4. Revolution and the power of living: popular sovereignty

5. Democracy and its other: biopolitical sovereignty

Epilogue: a relational ontology of the political.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780823252213

0823252213

9780823252893

0823252892

9780823252220

0823252221

9780823251377

0823251373

OCLC:

844436847