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Book Review: Judith Still, Derrida and Hospitality: theory and practice
(Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
A book review of Judith Still, Derrida and Hospitality: theory and practice, (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2010), 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-7486-4027-0
Deconstructing the Leviathan: Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2012)
Derrida’s The Beast & the Sovereign volume I, explores the contradictory appearance of animals in political discourse. Sometimes, as he points out, political man and the sovereign state appear in the form of an animal, and ...
Revisiting Plato’s Pharmacy
(Springer, 2010)
In this essay, one of Derrida’s early texts, Plato’s pharmacy, is analysed in detail, more specifically in relation to its reflections on writing and its relation to law. This analysis takes place with reference to a number ...
Rethinking power and law: Foucault’s Society must be Defended
(Springer, 2011)
Michel Foucault provides a radical challenge to the liberal approach to power and law, which is echoed by Jacques Derrida. Important differences exist between the analyses of Foucault and Derrida which should not be ...
Spectres of Coke: Judicial supervision as a revolutionary inheritance
(Springer Verlag, 2007)
Sir Edward Coke is known for having played a central role in establishing the power of the common law courts to exercise a supervisory jurisdiction over the executive/administration. Coke is usually praised in the literature ...
Animal, Subject, Constitution. Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
(Johns Hopkins University, 2021)
Subjectivity and a civil constitution, according to Kant, are both made possible by a certain power or ability, which the human being has in comparison with animals. This essay examines Derrida's reading of Kant's Anthropology ...