{"product_id":"rogues-jacques-derrida-9780804749510","title":"Rogues: Two Essays on Reason","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRogues\u003c\/i\u003e, published in France under the title \u003ci\u003eVoyous\u003c\/i\u003e, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term \"\u003ci\u003eﾉtat voyou\u003c\/i\u003e\" is the French equivalent of \"rogue state,\" and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries by the leading global powers that Derrida rigorously and exhaustively examines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDerrida examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. Against this background, he delineates his understanding of \"democracy to come,\" which he distinguishes clearly from any kind of regulating ideal or teleological horizon. The idea that democracy will always remain in the future is not a temporal notion. Rather, the phrase would name the coming of the unforeseeable other, the structure of an event beyond calculation and program. Derrida thus aligns this understanding of democracy with the logic he has worked out elsewhere. But it is not just political philosophy that is brought under deconstructive scrutiny here: Derrida provides unflinching and hard-hitting assessments of current political realities, and these essays are highly engaged with events of the post-9\/11 world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques Derrida\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804749515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804749510\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.26w x 0.43d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2005 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2005 pg. 1897","brand":"Jacques Derrida","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995605762303,"sku":"9780804749510","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bc1eed0c-3a15-4d07-8b40-b53bd1dcc708.jpg?v=1683336757","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/rogues-jacques-derrida-9780804749510","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}