دانلود کتاب A New Philosophy of Modernity and Sovereignty: Towards Radical Historicisation

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Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Epigraph
Introduction
1 The Mirror Star
Kant: Stars, the law, and the remainder
Modernity’s greatest apocrypha: Hegel’s Berlin address
The Polar Star of spirit: Faith and exception
Modern sovereignty
Sovereignty: The most tempting of possibilities
From premodern transcendence to modern sovereignty
Proclamation and self-certainty: Taking the sovereign place
Modernity’s inner messianism: Reconstructing the universe
Why sovereignty needs the law
Sovereignty as a mode of governing the apocalyptic tension of modernity
Philosophy’s day after, or a failure of modern messianism
Stars in modern philosophy: “Us” and solitude on Earth
Creation of modern identity: From the Polar Star to the Mirror Star
The Mirror Star: Modern universe in motion
2 For a Derridean-Copernican Revolution Modernity Before History
History as a presupposition of modernity
Deconstructing history: Self-differentiation and time
Modernity as a proto-historical space
Overdetermination of modernity: A trans-epoch
3 Modernity as a Construct of Sovereignty
Modernity, history, and sovereignty
Temporal and spatial aspects of modernity as a trans-epoch
Historicizing modernity with the Mirror Star
Heidegger’s obscure cult of lasting
Modernity and the Mirror Star
4 The Unfinished Time of Modernity
The spectral democracy of modernity
Descartes’ demon of historicity: Is there history outside modernity?
5 Sovereign Suspension and Provisionality
Kantian sublimity and incommensurability of the modern universe
Permanent provisionality: Modernity as a universe of exception
Modernity in parable
Critique of provisionality
6 The Big Bang of Modernity
Modernity as an expanding universe
Fetishism of modern politics: Lessons from Heidegger
Grasping modernity through writing: Mallarmé and the Septentrion
Endless life: Why modernity produces biopolitics
Marx’s biopolitics
Ethical critique of sovereign identity
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index