Rogues
Subtitle: two essays on reason
By: Jacques Derrida ; translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas.
Series: Meridian; Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Legitimacy of governments; Sovereignty; National state; Rule of law
Work titles: Voyous.
Description: [In this book, the author] examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. [He] provides unflinching and hard-hitting assessments of current democratic realities, and these essays are highly engaged with the current political events of the post-9/11 world. -Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-175).