In Session 7 (26 February 2003) of <i>The Beast and the Sovereign</i>, Volume II, Jacques Derrida engages again with … Maurice Blanchot, two days after the latter’s cremation. This intervention also appears as a post-face to Derrida’s 2003 … edition of <i>Parages</i>, his collection of essays devoted to the work of Blanchot. In this article, I examine Derrida …

This paper addresses the “right to die” through the lens of Derrida’s <i>The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume One …, Derrida’s insight helps us understand how a “fear of death” is a fundamental performative feature of sovereignty politics … essay advances Derrida’s position that these performative workings of sovereignty, which currently preclude the right to die …

This paper takes up the question of secrecy and sovereignty in Derrida’s final seminar on <i>The Beast and the … Sovereign</i>. Focusing primarily on Derrida’s readings of Lacan and Celan in <i>Volume I</i>, it argues that, for Derrida, we … explains, or helps explain, why, in his discussions of sovereignty, Derrida spends so much time examining the animal, on the …

In <i>The Beast and the Sovereign</i>, Derrida addresses an association that is as paradoxical as it is common. On the … given the extent of Derrida’s previous engagements with Hegel’s corpus. I am not suggesting that this absence constitutes …

Derrida’s <i>The Beast & the Sovereign</i>, volume I, explores the contradictory appearance of animals in political …, Derrida explores the ‘origin’ of this contradictory logic <i>inter alia</i> with reference to animal fables which he contends … knowledge. In the same vein, Derrida shows how Hobbes’s Leviathan and sovereignty itself are constructed and maintained through …

something of an exception to Derrida’s usual hesitations about sovereignty. In other works, such as “Rogues”, Derrida displays a … Sovereign,” we find evidence of this ambivalence as well but here, Derrida comes a bit closer to the kind of position advocated … subverted. In particular, I focus on Derrida’s reading in Volume II of “Robinson Crusoe” as a text that both founds the …

In <i>The Beast and the Sovereign</i> v.1, Derrida argues that classical sovereignty is linked to the performative act …. Derrida contends that the sovereign distinction between self and other maps onto a distinction between sovereign autonomy and … responsibility, capacity and restraint on the one side against reaction, instinct and danger on the other, which, Derrida suggests …

In the Third Session of his seminar <i>The Beast and the Sovereign</i>, Volume 2, Jacques Derrida turns from a close … present—even the autobiographical—in the seminar. This essay follows Derrida’s treatment of the question in the rest of the … seminar. It considers, first, what Derrida calls the <i>phantasms</i> attendant upon all speculations regarding this …