What's to Become of "Democracy to Come"?

Thomson, Alex

doi:10.1353/pmc.2005.0028

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“…3. La figura de la ciudad refugio y la de la soberanía compartida pertenecen al contexto de una «democracia por venir» (Derrida, 1998b: 339-340;Caputo, 1999: 184-198;Thomson, 2005;Kaufmann, 2014). Esta idea supone que la democracia ya no sea pensada simplemente como un régimen político, sino como un modelo «sin modelo», «que acepta su propia historicidad, es decir, su propio devenir, que acepta su autocrítica, que acepta su perfectibilidad» (Chérif y Derrida, 2007: 39).…”

Section: Políticas De La Hospitalidadunclassified

Políticas de la hospitalidad en el pensamiento de Jacques Derrida

Herrero¹

2018

Rev. Estud. Polít.

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nos acerca las razones del porqué de esta experiencia: cualquier política de hospitalidad viene a conculcar la ética de la hospitalidad. El artículo analiza las razones de esta experiencia y elabora las posibilidades abiertas a una ética de la hospitalidad en las condiciones de finitud en que se encuentra toda existencia humana, a pesar de las aporías que revela la perspectiva deconstructivista.

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Políticas de la hospitalidad en el pensamiento de Jacques Derrida

Herrero¹

2018

Rev. Estud. Polít.

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“…Several readers of Derrida's work on 'democracy to come' have highlighted the way in which Derrida seeks to disassociate this concept from the principle of sovereignty. As Alex Thomson (2005) observes:…”

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'Democracy is coming to the RSA': On democracy, theology, and futural historicity

Vosloo

2016

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This article brings the concept of democracy � as an open-ended tradition � in conversation with notions dealing with historicity and the future, such as �democracy to come�, �promise�, and �a democratic vision�. It is argued that although these notions are rightfully associated with the future, they also imply that democracy should not be disconnected from an emphasis on an inheritance from the past. With this emphasis in mind, the first part of the article attends to the French philosopher Jacques Derrida�s intriguing term, �democracy to come�, whereas the second part of the article takes a closer look at some aspects of the work of the South African theologian John de Gruchy on democracy, with special reference to his distinction between a democratic system and a democratic vision. The third, and final, part of the article brings some of the insights taken from the engagement with Derrida and De Gruchy into conversation with the continuing challenges facing theological discourse on democracy in South Africa today.Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications: A constructive proposal is made that emphasises the futural openness of democracy in a way that challenges a vague utopianism.Keywords: Democracy; Derrida; De Gruchy; future; historicity

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“…In 'autoimmune diseases', the body (somewhat inexplicably) develops auto-antibodies that attack its own cells as if they were foreign -that is to say, the immune system begins to attack the very same body it is designed to protect due to an inability to 'distinguish between what it protects and what it protects against'. 9 What Derrida exploits in his borrowing of this concept from biology is the always-possible failure of (physiological) systems of self-protection. In order to insure good health, we require that our immune systems be 'perfectly' vigilant to bodily dangers; if immune systems are deficient, we suffer disease, and if they are excessive, our bodies destroy themselves.…”

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Terror, torture and democratic autoimmunity

Johnson

2012

Philosophy & Social Criticism

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Shortly before his death in 2004, Jacques Derrida provocatively suggested that the greatest problem confronting contemporary democracy is that ‘the alternative to democracy can always be represented as a democratic alternative’. This article analyses the manner in which certain manifestly anti-democratic practices, like terror and torture, come to be taken up in defense of democracies as a result of what Derrida calls democracy’s ‘autoimmune’ tendencies.

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What's to Become of "Democracy to Come"?

Cited by 8 publications

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Políticas de la hospitalidad en el pensamiento de Jacques Derrida

Políticas de la hospitalidad en el pensamiento de Jacques Derrida

'Democracy is coming to the RSA': On democracy, theology, and futural historicity

Terror, torture and democratic autoimmunity

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