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Sovereignty and Its Other: Toward the Dejustification of Violence

By Dimitris Vardoulakis

Book information

Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9780823252220
DOI
10.1515/9780823252220
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7067869 bytes)
Pages
272\285
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 19:10:52

Description

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.

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