How to Tremble Beyond Sovereignty: Derrida and Beckett

Waiting for Justice: Benjamin and Derrida on Sovereignty and Immanence

WAITING BEFORE THE LAW IN KAFKA’S PARABLE “BEFORE THE LAW” WE SEE, quite famously, that the story’s protagonist (known only as “the man from the country”) is forced to wait before the gate of law for his whole life. The gatekeeper, whose only purpose seems to be to bar the man’s way, keeps him sitting on a stool just before the gate. As the man is dying from old age, he has this well-known exch...

Beyond Epistemic Sovereignty

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Technological Futures and God’s Sovereignty: How Far Will We (Be Allowed to) Go?

Hal N. Ostrander is Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Christian Theology at the James P. Boyce College of the Bible. Dr. Ostrander has also served on the faculty of Dallas Baptist University. He has writ ten a number of ar ticles on the relationship between science and the scriptures Introduction The historical impetus for the practice of classical Christian faith has always been fides ...

Fear, Sovereignty, and the Right to Die

This paper addresses the “right to die” through the lens of Derrida’s The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume One. Specifically focusing on the case of Tony Nicklinson v. Ministry of Justice, 2012, the essay posits two things. First, Derrida’s insight helps us understand how a “fear of death” is a fundamental performative feature of sovereignty politics. Second, in order to maintain its performativ...