Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy
Dimitris Vardoulakis
Abstract
How is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.
Keywords: agonistic democracy, biopolitics, Nicole Loraux, political theology, refugees, Carl Schmitt, sovereignty, Spinoza, stasis, violence
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823277391 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: May 2018 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823277391.001.0001 |
