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500Legitimacy, Signature and Sovereignty in DerridaLaw, Culture and the Humanities 2021. 2021.Legitimacy is a concept that has been largely forgotten by the deconstructive discourse on law and politics. This article seeks, on the one hand, to reassess the role of legitimacy in deconstruction and, on the other hand, to bring deconstructive thinking to bear on the concept of legitimacy. By re-reading Derrida’s “Declarations of Independence” through the lenses of his later texts on sovereignty and (counter)signature, it is argued that, rather than being deconstructible, legitimacy is decons…Read more
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20The theory of hegemony: Laclau’s path not takenPhilosophy and Social Criticism 46 (10): 1225-1243. 2020.The article revisits the theory of hegemony of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe and shows how a normative injunction, which according to Laclau is not compatible with the hegemonic logic, is not only possible but a necessary condition for hegemony to function. The article claims that the path to demonstrate this involves rethinking the relationship between the theory of hegemony and Derridean deconstruction. Following criticisms that the theory of hegemony overlooks the aporetic nature of Derri…Read more
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14Founding acts: Constitutional origins in a democratic ageContemporary Political Theory 17 (S2): 66-69. 2018.
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