Dimitris Vardoulakis: 3 books
Sovereignty and Its Other
Toward the Dejustification of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
In this new book, Dimitris Vardoulakis asks how it is possible to think of a politics that is not commensurate with sovereignty. For such a politics, he argues, sovereignty is defined not in terms of the exception but as the different ways in which violence is justified. Vardoulakis shows how it is...
Stasis Before the State
Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
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,...
The Doppelganger
Literature's Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796...