Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy

by Dimitris Vardoulakis

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823277402
• ISBN13: 9780823277407
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.3"