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Being, Sovereignty, Unconditionality: Heidegger’s Walten in Derrida’s La bête et le souverain II
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 44, Number 3, September 2011
- pp. 99-113
- 10.1353/mos.2011.a450731
- Article
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In this essay, I trace Jacques Derrida’s argument in La bête et le souverain II regarding the crucial role that the German verb walten plays in Martin Heidegger’s writings. I argue that Derrida’s attempt to read Heidegger’s Walten provides a crucial articulation of his thinking of sovereignty and unconditionality.