Enduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic Sovereignty
The aim of this article is to read Rogues, in order to show that Derrida is neither a philosopher of democracy nor a critic of sovereignty , but rather a thinker of democratic sovereignty. Taking my cue from his Aporias, I argue that democratic sovereignty is aporetically in excess over itself, for...
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| description | The aim of this article is to read Rogues, in order to show that Derrida is neither a philosopher of democracy nor a critic of sovereignty , but rather a thinker of democratic sovereignty. Taking my cue from his Aporias, I argue that democratic sovereignty is aporetically in excess over itself, for it is based on articulating the path through the im-possible passage from the unconditional injunction of the ‘promise’ to the exigency of sovereignty. That is why it can neither be absorbed into the conditions of any existing democracy nor abstracted into any pure identity of sovereignty. Political trends today fail in enduring the aprioricity of aporia, as neoliberals valorize the posited conditions of existing democracy and populists the objective pregivenness of the ‘people’. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5eeb103c01c745fd9f0c01064372e3c22022-12-21T20:36:26ZengUniversity of Groningen PressKrisis1875-71032021-06-014119411310.21827/krisis.41.1.3717126811Enduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic SovereigntyJanar Mihkelsaar0University of Jyväskylä, FinlandThe aim of this article is to read Rogues, in order to show that Derrida is neither a philosopher of democracy nor a critic of sovereignty , but rather a thinker of democratic sovereignty. Taking my cue from his Aporias, I argue that democratic sovereignty is aporetically in excess over itself, for it is based on articulating the path through the im-possible passage from the unconditional injunction of the ‘promise’ to the exigency of sovereignty. That is why it can neither be absorbed into the conditions of any existing democracy nor abstracted into any pure identity of sovereignty. Political trends today fail in enduring the aprioricity of aporia, as neoliberals valorize the posited conditions of existing democracy and populists the objective pregivenness of the ‘people’.https://krisis.eu/article/view/37171aporiaautoimmunityderridademocracysovereignty |
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| title | Enduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic Sovereignty |
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| title_short | Enduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic Sovereignty |
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