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The God Who Deconstructs Himself - Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida (Hardcover)
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The God Who Deconstructs Himself - Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and
political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben,
and from Guantanamo Bay to the 'war on terror,' the issue of the
extent and the nature of the sovereign has given theoretical
debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has
always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime
involves. Each denomination of sovereignty requires a specific mode
of subjectivity to explain its meaning and facilitate its
operation. The aim of this book is to help outline Jacques
Derrida's thinking on sovereignty - a theme which increasingly
attracted Derrida towards the end of his career - in its
relationship to subjectivity. It investigates the late work Rogues:
Two Essays on Reason, as not only Derrida's fullest statement of
his thinking on sovereignty, but also as the destination of his
career-long interest in questions of politics and self-identity.
The book argues that in Derrida's thinking of the relationship
between sovereignty and subjectivity - and the related themes of
unconditionality and ipseity - we can detect the outline of
Bataille's adaptation of Freud. Freud completed his
'metapsychology,' by defining the 'economic' nature of
subjectivity. In Bataille's hands, this economic theory became a
key to the nature of inter-relationship in general, specifically
the complex and shifting relationship between subjectivity and
power. In playing with Bataille's legacy, Derrida connects not only
with the irrepressibly outrageous thinking of philosophy's most
self-consciously transgressive thinker, but with the early
twentieth century scientific revolution through which 'energy'
became ontology. As with so many of the forebears who influenced
him, Derrida echoes and adapts Bataille's thinking while radically
de-literalising it. The results are crucial for understanding
Derrida's views on power, subjectivity and representation, as well
as all of the other key themes in late Derrida: hospitality,
justice, otherness and the gift.
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