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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463273603321

Autore

Vardoulakis Dimitris

Titolo

Sovereignty and its other [[electronic resource] ] : toward the dejustification of violence / / Dimitris Vardoulakis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-5221-3

0-8232-5289-2

0-8232-5222-1

0-8232-5137-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Commonalities

Disciplina

320.1/5

Soggetti

Sovereignty

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.