Derrida and the Political

Beardsworth, Richard

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“…Derrida's repeated efforts to express the elusive object of philosophical grounding have an essentially aporetic structure, that is, they point to the non‐passage or the uncrossable path that is constitutive of the limits of language as well as attempts to ground reason and knowledge (Beardsworth, , p. 32; Derrida, , p. 16). They resemble the labors of Sisyphus, or the obscure internal movements illustrated in Maurits Escher's drawings.…”

Section: Derrida Versus Foucault or The Derridean Paradoxical Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding

Khan

2018

Constellations

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Section: Derrida Versus Foucault or The Derridean Paradoxical Statusmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding

Khan

2018

Constellations

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“…64 State Britain did not only invite awareness that SOCPA could not address the singularity of the individual whilst at the same time seeking to realize the generality that the law claims for itself. 65 The work was also exemplary because the undecidable relationship between the general and the singular, which it focused attention on by oscillating across the boundary of the circular zone, translates the iterability of the law. 66 The way in which the work drew attention to this translation may be approached through the observation by Chantal Mouffe that, "[w]hat is at a given moment considered as the 'natural' order -jointly with the 'common sense' which accompanies it -is the result of sedimented hegemonic practices; it is never the manifestation of a deeper objectivity exterior to the practices that bring it into being."…”

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“…65 The work was also exemplary because the undecidable relationship between the general and the singular, which it focused attention on by oscillating across the boundary of the circular zone, translates the iterability of the law. 66 The way in which the work drew attention to this translation may be approached through the observation by Chantal Mouffe that, "[w]hat is at a given moment considered as the 'natural' order -jointly with the 'common sense' which accompanies it -is the result of sedimented hegemonic practices; it is never the manifestation of a deeper objectivity exterior to the practices that bring it into being." 67 As already discussed, Wallinger's work problematized the extent to which the enforcement of SOCPA relied on common sense to determine what constituted a demonstration.…”

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State Britain and the Art of (Im)proper Democratic Protest

Pilcher

2016

Law, Culture & the Humanities

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The installation of Mark Wallinger’s State Britain in the Duveen Galleries of Tate Britain recreated Brian Haw’s protest opposite the Houses of Parliament, which had largely been dismantled by the police under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. Wallinger’s work bisected a boundary created by the Act inside which the police could be given greater than usual powers to control demonstrations. The intersection exemplified how, when understood in terms of the performative after Jacques Derrida, art may unsettle the ways in which both the law and aesthetics work to protect the political establishment.

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“…The article is structured around three key moments in the development of transitional justice: the foundation of the disciplinary space; its constitutive exclusions; and the return of that which is excluded (Beardsworth 1996).…”

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Deconstructing Transitional Justice

Turner

2013

Law Critique

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Derrida and the Political

Cited by 25 publications

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Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding

Rereading Habermas's charge of “performative contradiction” in light of Derrida's account of the paradoxes of philosophical grounding

State Britain and the Art of (Im)proper Democratic Protest

Deconstructing Transitional Justice

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