Derrida Jacques. Rogues: Two Essays on Reason

Transl. by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas. — Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. — 200 p. — (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) — ISBN-10 0804749515; ISBN-13 978-0804749510.Rogues, published in France under the title Voyous, comprises two major lectures that Derrida delivered in 2002 investigating the foundations of the sovereignty of the nation-state. The term "État voyou" is the French equivalent of "rogue state," and it is this outlaw designation of certain countries by the leading global powers that Derrida rigorously and exhaustively examines. Derrida examines the history of the concept of sovereignty, engaging with the work of Bodin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Schmitt, and others. Against this background, he delineates his understanding of "democracy to come," which he distinguishes clearly from any kind of regulating ideal or teleological horizon. The idea that democracy will always remain in the future is not a temporal notion. Rather, the phrase would name the coming of the unforeseeable other, the structure of an event beyond calculation and program. Derrida thus aligns this understanding of democracy with the logic he has worked out elsewhere. But it is not just political philosophy that is brought under deconstructive scrutiny here: Derrida provides unflinching and hard-hitting assessments of current political realities, and these essays are highly engaged with events of the post-9/11 world.Preface: VeniThe Reason of the Strongest (Are There Rogue States?)The Free Wheel
License and Freedom: The Roué
The Other of Democracy, the "By Turns": Alternative and Alternation
Mastery and Measure
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or, How Not to Speak in Mottos
The Rogue That I Am
God, What More Do I Have to Say? In What Language to Come?
The Last of the Rogue States: The "Democracy to Come," Opening in Two Turns
(No) More Rogue States
SendingThe "World" of the Enlightenment to Come (Exception, Calculation, and Sovereignty)Teleology and Architectonic: The Neutralization of the Event
To Arrive - At the Ends of the State (and of War, and of World War)