Sovereignty without sovereignty: Derrida’s Declarations of Independence

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dc.contributor.authorDe Ville, Jacques
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-21T12:22:42Z
dc.date.available2012-06-21T12:22:42Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractThis article questions the common assumptions in legal theory regarding Derrida’s well-known Declarations of Independence. Through a close reading of this text, well-known ground such as the relation between speech and writing, the notion of representation, speech act theory, the signature, and the proper name is covered. The contribution that this analysis makes in the present context lies in the additional ‘step’ that it takes. The article seeks to give an explanation of the laws at work in Derrida’s thinking in the above respects and to explain more specifically how they find expression in Declarations of Independence. The article in this regard also investigates the importance and role of the ‘notions’ of death, loss of meaning, loss of ownership, and loss of sovereignty in Derrida’s thinking. The contention is that if we take account of Derrida’s reading in Declarations of Independence, it is possible to view constitutions in a very different way, more specifically their ‘origins’, with inevitable implications for constitutional interpretation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationDe Ville, J. (2008). Sovereignty without sovereignty: Derrida’s Declarations of Independence. Law and Critique, 19: 87-114en_US
dc.identifier.issn0957-8536
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/360
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmittertrue
dc.publisherSpringeren_US
dc.rightsThis is the author postprint version of an article published by Springer. The file may be freely used, provided that acknowledgement of the source is given.
dc.source.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10978-008-9024-z
dc.status.ispeerreviewedtrue
dc.subjectConstitutionen_US
dc.subjectDerrida, Jacquesen_US
dc.subjectInterpretationen_US
dc.subjectIterabilityen_US
dc.subjectJusticeen_US
dc.subjectProper nameen_US
dc.subjectRepresentationen_US
dc.subjectSignatureen_US
dc.subjectSovereigntyen_US
dc.subjectSpeech actsen_US
dc.titleSovereignty without sovereignty: Derrida’s Declarations of Independenceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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