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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Autor principal:	Janar Mihkelsaar
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Publicado:	University of Groningen Press 2021
Materias:	aporia autoimmunity derrida democracy sovereignty Social Sciences H Political science (General) JA1-92 Philosophy (General) B1-5802
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5eeb103c01c745fd9f0c01064372e3c22021-12-02T17:09:46ZEnduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic Sovereignty1875-710310.21827/krisis.41.1.37171https://doaj.org/article/5eeb103c01c745fd9f0c01064372e3c22021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://krisis.eu/article/view/37171https://doaj.org/toc/1875-7103The 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’.Janar MihkelsaarUniversity of Groningen PressarticleaporiaautoimmunityderridademocracysovereigntySocial SciencesHPolitical science (General)JA1-92Philosophy (General)B1-5802ENNLKrisis, Vol 41, Iss 1, Pp 94-113 (2021)
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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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Enduring the Autoimmune Aporia of Democratic Sovereignty

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