Rogues

Two Essays on Reason

AvJacques Derrida

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

Del i serien Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics

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Beskrivning

Rogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term "État voyou" is the French equivalent of "rogue state," and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries by the leading global powers that Derrida rigorously and exhaustively examines.Derrida examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. Against this background, he delineates his understanding of "democracy to come," which he distinguishes clearly from any kind of regulating ideal or teleological horizon. The idea that democracy will always remain in the future is not a temporal notion. Rather, the phrase would name the coming of the unforeseeable other, the structure of an event beyond calculation and program. Derrida thus aligns this understanding of democracy with the logic he has worked out elsewhere. But it is not just political philosophy that is brought under deconstructive scrutiny here: Derrida provides unflinching and hard-hitting assessments of current political realities, and these essays are highly engaged with events of the post-9/11 world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-01-18
Mått:152 x 229 x 11 mm
Vikt:272 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Antal sidor:200
Förlag:Stanford University Press
ISBN:9780804749510
Översättare:Pascale-Anne Brault, Michael Naas

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The late Jacques Derrida was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English are Eyes of the University (2003), For What Tomorrow... with Elisabeth Roudinesco (2003), Counterpath with Catherine Malabou (2003), Negotiations (2002), Who's Afraid of Philosophy? (2002), and Without Alibi (2002). All of these have been published by Stanford University Press.

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"Rogues is Derrida's most sustained reflection on deconstruction's relation to political theory in general and to the idea of democracy in particular. . . . Highly recommended."—CHOICE "It is clear that Derrida was keen that the idea of 'democracy to come' would be central to the legacy of his thought, and for those who choose to take up that burden, Rogues will prove essential."—Times Literary Supplement

Innehållsförteckning

@fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsiii Preface: Veniiii @toc1:The Reason of the Strongest (Are there Rogue States?) @toc2:1The Free Wheel000 2License and Freedom: the roue000 3The other of democracy, the "by turns": alternative and alternation000 4Mastery and Measure000 5Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or How Not to Speak in Mottos000 6The Rogue that I Am000 7God, What More Do I Have To Say? In What Language To Come?000 8The Last of the Rogue States: The "Democracy to Come," Opening in Two Turns000 9(No) More Rogue States000 10Sending000 @toc1:The "World" of the Enlightenment to Come (Exception, Calculation, Sovereignty) @toc2:1Teleology and Architectonic: The Neutralization of the Event000 2To Arrive--at the Ends of the State (and of War, and of World War)000 @toc4:Notes000