Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy - Couverture souple

Vardoulakis, Dimitris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0823277402 ISBN 13 : 9780823277407

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power and excludes refugees and immigrants from citizenship. Within this structure, to resist sovereignty is to reproduce the logic of exclusion characteristic of sovereignty.

In contrast to this "ruse of sovereignty," Vardoulakis proposes an alternative model for political change. He argues that democracy can be understood as the structure of power that does not rely on exclusions and whose relation to sovereignty is marked not by exclusion but of incessant agonism.

The term stasis, which refers both to the state and to revolution against it, offers a tension that helps to show how the democratic imperative is presupposed by the logic of sovereignty, and how agonism is more primary than exclusion. In elaborating this ancient but only recently recovered concept of stasis, Vardoulakis illustrates the radical potential of democracy to move beyond the logic of exclusion and the ruse of sovereignty.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dimitris Vardoulakis is Associate Professor and deputy chair of philosophy at Western Sydney University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0823277402
• ISBN 13: 9780823277407
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible