Geoffrey Bennington 
Scatter 2 [EPUB ebook] 
Politics in Deconstruction

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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 Iliad, where Odysseus asserts that “the rule of many is no good thing, let there be one ruler, one king.” The line, Bennington shows, is quoted, misquoted, and progressively Christianized by Aristotle, Philo Judaeus, Suetonius, the early Church Fathers, Aquinas, Dante, Ockham, Marsilius of Padua, Jean Bodin, Etienne de la Boétie, up to Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson, and even one of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials, before being discussed by Derrida himself. In the book’s second half, Bennington begins again with Plato and Aristotle and tracks the concept of democracy as it regularly abuts and undermines that sovereignist tradition. In detailed readings of Hobbes and Rousseau, Bennington develops a notion of “proto-democracy” as a possible name for the scatter that underlies and drives the political as such and that will always prevent politics from achieving its aim of bringing itself to an end.

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Daftar Isi

Preface | ix
Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida | xiii
Introduction : Politics in Deconstruction | 1
Part I: Politics, Metaphysics, Sovereignty
1. Bios Theōrētikos, Bios Politikos | 15
2. Polykoiranie I (Derrida, Homer, Aristotle, Xenophanes) | 48
3. Polykoiranie II (Philo Judaeus, Early Christian Apologists, Pseudo-Dionysius) | 70
4. Polykoiranie III (John of Salisbury, Aquinas, Dante, Marsilius of Padua) | 100
5. Polykoiranie IV (Bodin, La Boétie) | 125
Part II: (Proto)Democracy
6. To Poikilon (Plato, Alfarabi, Aristotle) | 147
7. Democracy (Arendt, Aristotle) | 182
8. Protodemocracy and the Fall of Sovereignty (Hobbes, Aristotle) | 203
9. Nature, Sovereignty, Government (Spinoza, Rousseau) | 250
10. Stasiology (Rothaug, Peterson, Schmitt, Gregory of Nazianzus) | 280
Postscript | 301
Index | 305

Tentang Penulis

Geoffrey Bennington is Asa G. Candler Professor of Modern French Thought at Emory University.

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