{"product_id":"scatter-2-politics-in-deconstruction-hardback-9780823289929","title":"Scatter 2; Politics in Deconstruction (Hardback) 9780823289929","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eScatter 2\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePolitics in Deconstruction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeoffrey Bennington (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823289929\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 January 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.646 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e to contemporary philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eScatter 2\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e The book begins by following the fate of a line from Homer's \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e  ix\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAbbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida\u003c\/i\u003e   xiii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: Politics in Deconstruction   1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart I: Politics, Metaphysics, Sovereignty\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBios Theōrētikos, Bios Politikos\u003c\/i\u003e   15\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolykoiranie \u003c\/i\u003eI (Derrida, Homer, Aristotle, Xenophanes)   48\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolykoiranie \u003c\/i\u003eII (Philo Judaeus, Early Christian Apologists, Pseudo-Dionysius)   70\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003ePolykoiranie \u003c\/i\u003eIII (John of Salisbury, Aquinas, Dante, Marsilius of Padua)   100\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003ePolykoiranie \u003c\/i\u003eIV (Bodin, La Boétie)   125\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart II: (Proto)Democracy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo Poikilon\u003c\/i\u003e (Plato, Alfarabi, Aristotle)   147\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7. \u003c\/b\u003eDemocracy (Arendt, Aristotle)   182\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8.\u003c\/b\u003e Protodemocracy and the Fall of Sovereignty (Hobbes, Aristotle)   203\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9.\u003c\/b\u003e Nature, Sovereignty, Government (Spinoza, Rousseau)   250\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10.\u003c\/b\u003e Stasiology (Rothaug, Peterson, Schmitt, Gregory of Nazianzus)   280\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePostscript \u003c\/b\u003e  301\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e  305\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580426645784,"sku":"9780823289929","price":88.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/scatter-2-politics-in-deconstruction-hardback-9780823289929","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}