Scatter 2 Av Geoffrey Bennington

<p><b>This book deconstructs the whole lineage of political philosophy, showing the ways democracy abuts and regularly undermines the sovereignist tradition across a range of texts from the <i>Iliad</i> to contemporary philosophy.</b><br/>Politics is an object of perennial difficulty for philosophy¿as recalcitrant to philosophical mastery as is philosophy¿s traditional adversary, poetry. That difficulty makes it an attractive topic for any deconstructive approach to the tradition from which we inherit our language and our concepts. <i>Scatter 2</i> pursues that deconstruction, often starting with, and sometimes departing from, the work of Jacques Derrida by attending to the concepts of sovereignty on the one hand and democracy on the other. <br/>The book begins by following the fate of a line from Homer¿s <i>Iliad</i>, where Odysseus asserts that ¿the rule of many is no good thing, let there be one ruler, one king.¿ The line, Bennington shows, is quoted, misquoted, and progressively