LA BESTIA Y EL SOBERANO / THE BEAST AND THE SOVEREIGN

The Beast and the Sovereign was Jacques Derridas last seminar. It lent its name to the exhibition and accompanying catalogue at the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart and MACBA, Barcelona (2015). It examines constructs of political sovereignty in the W estern intellectual tradition. For Derrida the beast and the sovereign symbolized two opposing figures of the political that are bot h located outside the law: the beast, who does not know the law, and the sovereign, who is able to repeal the law. At issue are the binary power re...[Leer más]