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For Better and for Worse (There Again . . .)
- Diacritics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 38, Numbers 1-2, Spring-Summer 2008
- pp. 92-103
- 10.1353/dia.0.0042
- Article
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This article maps, across a wide range of works, the coordinates of Derrida's thinking of democracy and its relevance to a series of crucial concepts, from difference to autoimmunity. Distinguishing Derrida's idea of a “democracy to come” from the Kantian ideal, Bennington links it to Aristotle's insistence upon multiplicity and to a thinking of deviance and perversion, an appropriately deconstructive logic for thinking an absence of telos in democracy to come.