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Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) Paperback - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Derrida, Jacques
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- Title Rogues: Two Essays on Reason (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
- Author Derrida, Jacques
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 2005-01-18
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00ZE07_ns
- ISBN 9780804749510 / 0804749515
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 9.16 x 6.26 x 0.43 in (23.27 x 15.90 x 1.09 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Sovereignty, Rule of law
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004016072
- Dewey Decimal Code 320.1
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From the jacket flap
Rogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term "Etat voyou" is the French equivalent of "rogue state," and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries by the leading global powers that Derrida rigorously and exhaustively examines.
Derrida examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. Against this background, he delineates his understanding of "democracy to come," which he distinguishes clearly from any kind of regulating ideal or teleological horizon. The idea that democracy will always remain in the future is not a temporal notion. Rather, the phrase would name the coming of the unforeseeable other, the structure of an event beyond calculation and program. Derrida thus aligns this understanding of democracy with the logic he has worked out elsewhere. But it is not just political philosophy that is brought under deconstructive scrutiny here: Derrida provides unflinching and hard-hitting assessments of current political realities, and these essays are highly engaged with events of the post-9/11 world.
Derrida examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. Against this background, he delineates his understanding of "democracy to come," which he distinguishes clearly from any kind of regulating ideal or teleological horizon. The idea that democracy will always remain in the future is not a temporal notion. Rather, the phrase would name the coming of the unforeseeable other, the structure of an event beyond calculation and program. Derrida thus aligns this understanding of democracy with the logic he has worked out elsewhere. But it is not just political philosophy that is brought under deconstructive scrutiny here: Derrida provides unflinching and hard-hitting assessments of current political realities, and these essays are highly engaged with events of the post-9/11 world.
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Citations
- Choice, 06/01/2005, Page 1897
- Library Journal, 05/01/2005, Page 88