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.
- ISBN10 0823252213
- ISBN13 9780823252213
- Publish Date 1 August 2013
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fordham University Press
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 272
- Language English