Barbour, Charles - In: Societies 3 (2013) 1, pp. 117-127
This paper takes up the question of secrecy and sovereignty in Derrida’s final seminar on <i>The Beast and the Sovereign</i>. Focusing primarily on Derrida’s readings of Lacan and Celan in <i>Volume I</i>, it argues that, for Derrida, we should distinguish between the lie (or what Lacan calls...