Stasis before the state nine theses on agonistic democracy / Dimitris Vardoulakis.

Author/creator Vardoulakis, Dimitris
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Descriptionviii, 153 pages ; 20 cm
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Contents Preamble : the ruse of sovereignty or agonistic monism? -- Constituent power forges the distinction between democracy and sovereignty -- Sovereign violence is always justified violence -- The different ways in which violence is justified delineate different forms of sovereignty -- Sovereignty and the refugee -- Judgment is constitutive of democracy -- Judgment establishes the agonistic relation between democracy and sovereignty by dejustifying violence -- Democratic judgment shows the imbrication of the ontological, the political, and the ethical -- The refugee and resistance to sovereign power -- Stasis indicates that judgment is the condition of the possibility of the law, or that democracy is the form of the constitution -- Stasis, or agonistic monism, names the forms of the relation between democracy and sovereignty -- Stasis underlies all political praxis.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2017022680
ISBN9780823277391 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780823277407 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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