Правото над слабите. Две басни за суверенитета без суверен
The right against the weak. Two fables about the contemporary regimes of sovereignless sovereignty

Summary/Abstract: The paper proposes an approach to sovereign performatives capable of taking into account their ambiguous articulation as speech acts that are both self-empowering and bound to certain conventions. The basic idea of the approach is to develop a weaker interpretation of the concept of performative convention detachable from the normative example of the legal rules and therefore applicable to common sense speech acts where conventions are often unclear and underdefi ned. The advantages of the approach are demonstrated by a discussion of the performative constitution of the right against the weak, which is often invoked today by political actors insisting on the need to empower one or another enlightened and benevolent elite over the irrational multitude.

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