{"product_id":"stasis-before-the-state-dimitris-vardoulakis-9780823277391","title":"Stasis Before the State: Nine Theses on Agonistic Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book critiques the relation between sovereignty and democracy. Across nine theses, Vardoulakis argues that sovereignty asserts its power by establishing exclusions: the sovereign excluding other citizens from power and excludes refugees and immigrants from citizenship. Within this structure, to resist sovereignty is to reproduce the logic of exclusion characteristic of sovereignty. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn contrast to this \"ruse of sovereignty,\" Vardoulakis proposes an alternative model for political change. He argues that democracy can be understood as the structure of power that does not rely on exclusions and whose relation to sovereignty is marked not by exclusion but of incessant agonism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe term stasis, which refers both to the state and to revolution against it, offers a tension that helps to show how the democratic imperative is presupposed by the logic of sovereignty, and how agonism is more primary than exclusion. In elaborating this ancient but only recently recovered concept of stasis, Vardoulakis illustrates the radical potential of democracy to move beyond the logic of exclusion and the ruse of sovereignty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dimitris Vardoulakis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823277399\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823277391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/07\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.60h x 5.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2018","brand":"Dimitris Vardoulakis","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241126605055,"sku":"9780823277391","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2f6d97d4-c91e-483b-bc54-42eb0d680dcc.jpg?v=1772652869","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stasis-before-the-state-dimitris-vardoulakis-9780823277391","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}