Volume 10, Issue 2, Spring 2006
An Entrusted Responsibility: Reading and Remembering Jacques Derrida
Geoffrey Bennington
Pages 395-406
The Fall of Sovereignty
Reflecting on the fall or failure of sovereignty, this essay considers Derrida’s recent work under the heading of auto-immunity, and develops some consequences of that work, first of all in the political sphere (especially around democracy), but also some more general consequences around conceptuality itself.