Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The God Who Deconstructs Himself
    Unavailable
    The God Who Deconstructs Himself
    Unavailable
    The God Who Deconstructs Himself
    Ebook164 pages4 hours

    The God Who Deconstructs Himself

    By Nick Mansfield

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    No topic has caused more discussion in recent philosophy and political theory than sovereignty. From late Foucault to Agamben, and from Guantanamo Bay to the 'war on terror,' the issue of the extent and the nature of the sovereign has given theoretical debates their currency and urgency. New thinking on sovereignty has always imagined the styles of human selfhood that each regime involves. Each denomination of sovereignty requires a specific mode of subjectivity to explain its meaning and facilitate its operation. The aim of this book is to help outline Jacques Derrida's thinking on sovereignty - a theme which increasingly attracted Derrida towards the end of his career - in its relationship to subjectivity. It investigates the late work Rogues: Two Essays on Reason, as not only Derrida's fullest statement of his thinking on sovereignty, but also as the destination of his career-long interest in questions of politics and self-identity. The book argues that in Derrida's thinking of the relationship between sovereignty and subjectivity - and the related themes of unconditionality and ipseity - we can detect the outline of Bataille's adaptation of Freud. Freud completed his 'metapsychology,' by defining the 'economic' nature of subjectivity. In Bataille's hands, this economic theory became a key to the nature of inter-relationship in general, specifically the complex and shifting relationship between subjectivity and power. In playing with Bataille's legacy, Derrida connects not only with the irrepressibly outrageous thinking of philosophy's most self-consciously transgressive thinker, but with the early twentieth century scientific revolution through which 'energy' became ontology. As with so many of the forebears who influenced him, Derrida echoes and adapts Bataille's thinking while radically de-literalising it. The results are crucial for understanding Derrida's views on power, subjectivity and representation, as well as all of the other key themes in late Derrida: hospitality, justice, otherness and the gift.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFordham University Press
    Release dateAug 2, 2010
    ISBN9780823232413
    Unavailable
    The God Who Deconstructs Himself
    Author

    Nick Mansfield

    Rudyard J. Alcocer is the Forrest & Patsy Shumway Chair of Excellence in Romance Languages in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He teaches all levels of Latin American literature and culture, and has designed and taught advanced courses involving the Hispanic Caribbean and the African Diaspora in Spanish America.

    Read more from Nick Mansfield

    Related to The God Who Deconstructs Himself

    Related ebooks

    Psychology For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Is Nothing Sacred? Aristophanes’s The Clouds and Moral Taboos

      Nov 1, 2020

      On my way to an evening class, my eye caught an interesting poster on the hall bulletin board. In its most recent efforts to rehabilitate my retrograde moral sensibility, Fordham University advertised that it would now provide full vegan menus to the

      26 min read

    • Article

      The Power To Endure

      Apr 19, 2021

      The Power To Endure
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Conspiracy Museum

      May 13, 2020

      The Conspiracy Museum
      6 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Nov 3, 2022

      When I read David Hambling’s article ‘Listening to the voice within’ [FT423:16], I became conscious that my ‘inner voice’ was reading the piece aloud in my mind. Obviously I’ve had this realisation before; I decided to ask my wife if she also had an

      10 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jul 14, 2022

      CONTACT US BY POST: PO BOX 1200, WHITSTABLE CT1 9RH, OR E-MAIL SIEVEKING@FORTEANTIMES.COM PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS Simon Young’s account of the Wollaton Gnomes [FT417:29] brought to mind an account of “The Fairies of The Burn of Eat

      14 min read

    • Article

      Five Short Stories About the Life and Times of Ideas: A complexity theorist explores how science and culture co-evolve.

      Apr 30, 2015

      In the following five short chapters, David Krakauer, an evolutionary theorist, and president elect of the Santa Fe Institute, haven of complex systems research, examines five facets of chain reactions, each typifying how ideas spread through science

      10 min read

    • Article

      Editor’s Letter

      Oct 6, 2020

      Editor’s Letter
      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      May 19, 2022

      CONTACT US BY POST: PO BOX 1200, WHITSTABLE CT1 9RH, OR E-MAIL SIEVEKING@FORTEANTIMES.COM PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS Regarding the debate about ‘Middle-aged Mulder Syndrome’ [FT415:58-59]: encountering Fort for the first time in the l

      9 min read

    • Article

      Is Knowledge Power?

      Jul 30, 2018

      Is Knowledge Power?
      4 min read

    • Article

      Control

      Jun 18, 2019

      RELEASE August 2019 DEVELOPER Remedy Interactive PUBLISHER 505 Games LINK remedygames.com As I levitate with almost complete freedom around the Brutalist atrium of the Central Research area—all clean concrete walkways broken up by formidable trees—I

      5 min read

    • Article

      THE UTTER genius OF STUPIDITY

      Jul 12, 2021

      THE UTTER genius OF STUPIDITY
      7 min read

    • Article

      Think Yourself Better: 10 Rules Of Philosophy To Live By

      Feb 4, 2023

      The thing that separates human beings from other animals is our extraordinary capacity for complex, abstract thought. This is what has given rise to our diverse cultures, our scientific achievements, our ability to envisage the future and, hopefully,

      9 min read

    • Article

      The Classical Liberal Diaspora

      Feb 2, 2024

      The Classical Liberal Diaspora
      9 min read

    • Article

      Making Space

      Mar 17, 2021

      Making Space
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Conspirasphere

      Dec 2, 2021

      The Conspirasphere
      3 min read

    • Article

      Control

      May 30, 2019

      Control
      5 min read

    • Article

      Gunsapalooza!

      Apr 13, 2023

      Gunsapalooza!
      21 min read

    • Article

      The Tao Exposes Slavers to Contempt

      Jul 25, 2023

      A dam Smith is more often referenced than read in academic political economy. When Smith is referenced, it is sometimes suggested that he was advancing a narrow economic idea associated with the expression invisible hand. But a cursory reading of Smi

      5 min read

    • Article

      Duty And Loyalty

      Mar 28, 2019

      Duty And Loyalty
      5 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Jan 4, 2021

      CONTACT US BY POST: PO BOX 66598, LONDON N11 9EN, OR E-MAIL SIEVEKING@FORTEANTIMES.COM PLEASE PROVIDE US WITH YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS The report of an “Irish Wildman” [FT399:67] is not unusual. Stories about the ‘Wild Irish’ were common in England in the

      17 min read

    Reviews for The God Who Deconstructs Himself

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words