Abstract
Este ensayo trata de situar el problema del servicio militar en el pensamiento de Jacques Derrida. La primera parte explora esta cuestión en el seminario La bestia y el soberano, entre el Leviatán de Hobbes y tres fábulas clásicas. La segunda parte solicita algunas referencias clásicas como Rousseau, Heidegger y Renan, con el fin de cuestionar la conscripción tal y como está ejemplarmente implicada en la Francia contemporánea. La tercera y última parte convoca a Kant, la Iglesia Católica y el problema de la pena de muerte para esbozar la función del servicio militar desde el punto de vista de la deconstrucción del cosmopolitismo.
Highlights
Resumen: Este ensayo trata de situar el problema del servicio militar en el pensamiento de Jacques Derrida
Begins The Wolf and the Lamb, the fable that Jacques Derrida chose as an emblem to the first year of The Beast and the Sovereign seminar (Derrida, 2009: 7)
La Fontaine’s fable (1985: 51) and its exergue illustrate the law of a pessimistic anthropology, a Hobbesian state of nature
Summary
La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. Nous allons le montrer tout à l’heure. Going back to the Wolf, and to his trial against the Lamb, we should recognise that he was just carrying out a preventive police operation, maybe a secret one, but entirely within his own rights The fact that this operation implies a sort of birth control, or ethnic police, should disquiet us, yet, not as a pernicious exception, but as the ordinary exercise of a sovereign faculty. All these fables indicate a site where a number of crucial political oppositions are at stake, and still to be decided: assimilation and rejection, citizen and enemy, criminal and sovereign, right and arbitrariness, partisan (or deserter, or terrorist) and regular soldier (trooper or policeman), state of nature and institution, civil and inter-national war (normalised by treaties and fought by regular armies). To quote Derrida, “a certain effectivity, a certain efficacy, including the irreversible actuality of death, are not excluded from this affabulation” (2008: 217)
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