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Stasis Before the State : Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy.

How is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vardoulakis, Dimitris
Formato: Tesis Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Colección:Commonalities Ser.
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  • Cover; Contents; Preamble: The Ruse of Sovereignty or Agonistic Monism?; Thesis 1: Constituent power forges the distinction between democracy and sovereignty; Thesis 2: Sovereign violence is always justified violence; Thesis 3: The different ways in which violence is justified delineate different forms of sovereignty; Intermezzo 1: Sovereignty and the Refugee; Thesis 4: Judgment is constitutive of democracy; Thesis 5: Judgment establishes the agonistic relation between democracy and sovereignty by dejustifying violence.