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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright Page 2 Contents 8 Preamble: The Ruse of Sovereignty or Agonistic Monism? 12 Thesis 1: Constituent power forges the distinction between democracy and sovereignty 24 Thesis 2: Sovereign violence is always justified violence 40 Thesis 3: The different ways in which violence is justified delineate different forms of sovereignty 50 Intermezzo 1: Sovereignty and the Refugee 58 Thesis 4: Judgment is constitutive of democracy 66 Thesis 5: Judgment establishes the agonistic relation between democracy and sovereignty by dejustifying violence 72 Thesis 6: Democratic judgment shows the imbrication of the ontological, the political, and the ethical 80 Intermezzo 2: The Refugee and Resistance to Sovereign Power 88 Thesis 7: Stasis indicates that judgment is the condition of the possibility of the law, or that democracy is the form of the constitution 96 Thesis 8: Stasis, or agonistic monism, names the forms of the relation between democracy and sovereignty 106 Thesis 9: Stasis underlies all political praxis 122 Acknowledgments 134 Notes 140 Publisher:Fordham University Press,Published:2017,ISBN:9780823277421,Language:English,OCLC:1017608588 This book critiques the r

Author
Dimitris Vardoulakis; Project Muse
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780823277414
Subjects
Science, Philosophy, History

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