Who Speaks? Renegotiating Sovereign and Metaphysical Discourses in Politics and Law

Abstract

The article deals with the theme of the subject in politics and law, which is essentially also the theme of who speaks. A focus on the voice is regarded here as paramount. It is assumed that the current subject of politics and law is a cut subject, divested of the body and oneself, construed as a vertical, autonomous, independent and self-coherent individual who has no body but only righteous relations to the others and the community around. It is a subject that has been split and essentialised into sovereign and metaphysical ideas.

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