Sovereignty and Its Other

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Sovereignty and Its Other is written by Dimitris Vardoulakis and published by Fordham Univ Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0823251357 (ISBN 10) and 9780823251353 (ISBN 13).

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 possible to deconstruct the various justifications of violence. Such de-justifications can only take place by presupposing an other to sovereignty, which Vardoulakis identifies with radical democracy. In doing so, Sovereignty and Its Other puts forward both a novel critique of sovereignty and an original philosophical theory of democratic practice.