Stasis Before the State by Dimitris Vardoulakis
How is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.-
Documentality
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Sensible Life
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Terms of the Political
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Experiments in Exile
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Practicing Caste
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The Republic of the Living
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Communities in Fiction
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The Life of Things, the Love of Things
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Form and Event
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Redemptive Hope
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Giorgio Agamben
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Where Are You?
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Liturgical Power
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Shattering Biopolitics
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Thinking Through Crisis
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The Subject of Freedom
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The Reject
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Common Things
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Two
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The Queer Turn in Feminism
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Europe and Empire
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Categories of the Impolitical
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Grammatology of Images
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Identity
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Sovereignty and Its Other
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Scandalize My Name
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The Origin of the Political
Against the naive utopias of radical democracy and of liberal democracy alike, Vardoulakis presents us with 'agonistic democracy'-a non-teleological and paradoxical political practice that constitutes the condition of possibility as well as the only real alternative to sovereign powerStasis before the State is a truly remarkable and memorable book. -- -Cesare Casarino University of Minnesota, Cultural Critique Senior Editor A beautiful and lyrical book. Over the course of nine theses Vardoulakis contends with some of the central issues of contemporary politics and shows that we need not fear conflict but should embrace it as a critical aspect of democratic life. -- -James Martel San Francisco State University
Dimitris Vardoulakis is Associate Professor and deputy chair of philosophy at Western Sydney University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780823277391 |
| ISBN 10 | 0823277399 |
| Title | Stasis Before the State |
| Author | Dimitris Vardoulakis |
| Series | Commonalities |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Fordham University Press |
| Year published | 2017-11-07 |
| Number of pages | 168 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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