“Democracy To Come in Derridean Philosophy: Between Sovereignty and Unconditionality”

• Autor: Balcarce, Gabriela
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2015
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistaspuc:article/13424
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/13424
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: democracy to come; sovereignty; otherness; Derrida; unconditionality; democracia por venir; soberanía; alteridad; incondicionalidad

This  article  aims  to  perform  a  reading  of  the  Derridean notion of “democracy to come”. Taking this notion as a starting point, the author makes a deep reading of the problems of democracy with regard to its foundation and concept. Our hypothesis is that “democracy to come” allows Derrida to put democracy -as a resistance to any totalizing closure in the name of the common and the same- into an abyss. At the same time, we’ll interpret this notion considering its links with sovereignty and unconditionality, understanding the latter as an infinite openness to otherness.