Stasis Before the State : Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy.

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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Main Author: Vardoulakis, Dimitris
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Series:Commonalities Ser.
Subjects:
Democracy.
Sovereignty.
Political violence.
sovereignty.
terrorism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
Democracy
Political violence
Sovereignty
Electronic books.
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Summary: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 thus demands a radical rethinking.
Physical Description:1 online resource (169 pages)
ISBN:9780823277421
0823277429
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Dissertation Note:Thesis 6: Democratic judgment shows the imbrication of the ontological, the political, and the ethicalIntermezzo 2: The Refugee and Resistance to Sovereign Power; Thesis 7: Stasis indicates that judgment is the condition of the possibility of the law, or that democracy is the form of the constitution; Thesis 8: Stasis, or agonistic monism, names the forms of the relation between democracy and sovereignty; Thesis 9: Stasis underlies all political praxis; Acknowledgments; Notes.

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