Democracy as a Tragic Regime

• expression écrite - matière potentielle : about the state of exception
• cours magistral
• exposé
• expression écrite - matière potentielle : on biopolitics

1 Democracy as a Tragic Regime Nathalie Karagiannis Lecture prepared for delivery at the University of Michigan This is not the full text of the lecture and references are missing. Please do not quote without contacting the author at: Greek tragedy makes the undecidable bearable Steiner, Antigones I. Enigma of democracy Democracy stubbornly resists the huge amounts of literature that are written about it – it remains an enigma.

• permanent ‘state of exception
• state of exception
• permanent self-cancellation
• tragic regime
• linear continuation with the democratic phenomenon
• tragedy
• situations
• democracy
• law
• political life