Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

by Jacques Derrida

Pascale-Anne Brault (Translator) and Michael Naas (Translator)

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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...

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  • ISBN10 0804749515
  • ISBN13 9780804749510
  • Publish Date 18 January 2005
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Stanford University Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 200
  • Language English