Scatter 2: Politics in Deconstruction
Geoffrey Bennington, "Scatter 2: Politics in Deconstruction"
English | ISBN: 0823289923 | 2021 | 352 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 0823289923 | 2021 | 352 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book deconstructs the whole lineage of political philosophy, showing the ways democracy abuts and regularly undermines the sovereignist tradition across a range of texts from the Iliad to contemporary philosophy.
Politics is an object of perennial difficulty for philosophy―as recalcitrant to philosophical mastery as is philosophy’s traditional adversary, poetry. That difficulty makes it an attractive topic for any deconstructive approach to the tradition from which we inherit our language and our concepts. Scatter 2 pursues that deconstruction, often starting with, and sometimes departing from, the work of Jacques Derrida by attending to the concepts of sovereignty on the one hand and democracy on the other.
The book begins by following the fate of a line from Homer’s
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