The God Who Deconstructs Himself Sovereignty and Subjectivity Between Freud, Bataille, and Derrida

This book outlines Jacques Derridaas thinking on sovereignty in relation to subjectivity through an investigation of the late work "Rogues: Two Essays on Reason." The author detects in Derridaas thinking of sovereigntyaa theme that increasingly attracted him toward the end of his lifeathe outline of Batailleas adaptation of Freud. The results of Mansfieldas analysis will be crucial for understanding such key themes in late Derrida as hospitality, justice, otherness, and the gift.

Nick Mansfield is Professor in Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of Masochism: The Art of Power; Subjectivity: Theories of the Self from Freud to Haraway, and Theorizing War: From Hobbes to Badiou.