Izgledi političkoga: O Europi, građanskome ratu i kraju suverenosti
The Prospects of the Political: On Europe, the Civil War and the End of Sovereignty

Summary/Abstract: This article will try to explain the basic setting of Europe on the outcome of the ideas of modern sovereignty of the nation as a transition from the paradigm of constituent power to the paradigm of destitutent power. It simultaneously assumed the philosophical-political understanding of the reasons why the European Union should be exposed necessary in the ongoing crisis of its own activity. Since the inability of construction the "political people" (demos) derives from the weakness of "civil religion of freedom", we witnessed the division of Europe into two folds within the framework of formal democracy: Western or liberal-democratic Europe is trying to save the spirit of universality, and the Eastern or authoritarian democratic constellation try to established the new power in assumptions based on returning sovereignty of the nation-state, the dissolution of secularity and the rejection of multiculturalism. The critical analysis of Agamben's theory of stasis or the civil war as a "new political paradigm" has the main attempt do show that what is going on "today" to the idea of the political is no longer a question of freedom concerning the events of "upcoming community". Instead, we are faced with power without the rule of "the people", with states that have lost their sovereignty and everything seems like introduction to the "global civil war" in a situation when the life has been separated from the political management of the "crisis" and existence of "bare life" in the global order of entropy.

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