This essay is concerned with criticisms of Giorgio Agamben’s biopolitical theory of sovereignty that are developed by …, these relate to conceptualizing sovereignty and its relationship to the division between human and animal. The second … of Derrida’s criticisms for thinking sovereignty and its future. …

knowledge. In the same vein, Derrida shows how Hobbes’s Leviathan and sovereignty itself are constructed and maintained through … logic (in Hobbes) of excluding both beast and God from the covenant whilst maintaining God as the model of sovereignty. God …, in other words, ‘is’ the beast repressed and can therefore hardly serve as the foundation of sovereignty. The self, and …

in which Derrida engaged with Blanchot in his work and how in examining this engagement another reading of sovereignty … emphasize the link of this alternative sovereignty to both writing and literature in order to demonstrate how a more radical … thinking of sovereignty can be discovered in Derrida’s thought. …

, Derrida’s insight helps us understand how a “fear of death” is a fundamental performative feature of sovereignty politics …. Second, in order to maintain its performative role, sovereignty must perpetuate the belief that “man is wolf to man.” I argue … 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 … subject, while the latter represents a limit to such a thing, and, arguably, to the concept of sovereignty as such. This … explains, or helps explain, why, in his discussions of sovereignty, Derrida spends so much time examining the animal, on the …

something of an exception to Derrida’s usual hesitations about sovereignty. In other works, such as “Rogues”, Derrida displays a … deep ambivalence about sovereignty insofar as for all of his condemnation of sovereign authority, he fears that what might … replace it could be even worse (and, to be fair, he also sees positive aspects of sovereignty as well). In “The Beast and the …

In <i>The Beast and the Sovereign</i> v.1, Derrida argues that classical sovereignty is linked to the performative act … sovereignty. This alternative sovereignty would be without mastery and its binaries. I suggest that Derrida finds such an … alternative sovereignty in the “majesty” of poetry, which, in his own poetic gesture, allows him to upset traditional distinctions. …