Sovereignty and Its Other : : Toward the Dejustification of Violence / / Dimitris Vardoulakis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Vardoulakis, Dimitris,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Commonalities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Preamble, or Power and Its Relations --; 1 Judgment and Justification --; 2 The Vicissitude of Participation --; 3 The Propinquity of Nature --; 4 Revolution and the Power of Living --; 5 Democracy and Its Other --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823252220; 9783111189604; 9783110707298
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823252220?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dimitris Vardoulakis.

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.