Description: 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 proposes an alternative model for political change. He argues that democracy can be understood as the structure of power that does not rely on exclusions and whose relation to sovereignty is marked not by exclusion but of incessant agonism. The term stasis, which refers both to the state and to revolution against it, offers a tension that helps to show how the democratic imperative is presupposed by the logic of sovereignty, and how agonism is more primary than exclusion. In elaborating this ancient but only recently recovered concept of stasis, Vardoulakis illustrates the radical potential of democracy to move beyond the logic of exclusion and the ruse of sovereignty.
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EAN: 9780823277407
UPC: 9780823277407
ISBN: 9780823277407
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Number of Pages: 168 Pages
Publication Name: Stasis before the State : Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Subject: Emigration & Immigration, History & Theory, Political, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.4 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 6.2 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Philosophy, Social Science
Item Length: 7.5 in
Author: Dimitris Vardoulakis
Series: Commonalities Ser.
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
