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Stasis Before the State - Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (Hardcover)
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Stasis Before the State - Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Commonalities
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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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