Original scientific paper
COMMUNITY WITHOUT CONDITIONS: ON DECONSTRUCTION OF THE SUBJECT OF MODERN POLITICS
Žarko Paić
; Faculty of Textile Technology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The article critically analyses the political thinking of the late Derrida. The
basic assumption is that after the end of the idea of sovereignty of the nationstate
we should create a new thinking that will no longer be derrived from the
metaphysical context within which the policy of the new technology can be
useful. End of the subject in globalization politics requires deconstruction of
all concepts of modern politics: state, society, law, morality. Political thinking
in contrast to political philosophy and theory of politics has no “foundation”
in present reality. Derrida and many other distinctive thinkers of upcoming
community try to operate with the idea that the political can be reduced to
any, even secularized, transcendental signifier. What would be able to connect
with real political uncanny is comprehended in the provision of action
(praxis). It requires a theoretical way of performativity in the event that cannot
happen without a decision on the change of reality in a historical-epochal
constellation of power and strength. The problem of Derrida’s thinking of the
political arises from the idea of upcoming democracy: it necessarily has some
remnant of theological contents and messianic forms without Messiah and
without God in the age of radical depoliticization of society and culture. In
this respect, its focus on unconditional hospitality and unconditional friendship
has some surplus of non-political acts and ethics, rather than fragments
of real politics.
Keywords
Upcoming Community; Political Deconstruction; Sovereignty; Democracy; Derrida
Hrčak ID:
111722
URI
Publication date:
5.12.2013.
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