Sovereignty renounced: Autoimmunizing and democratizing Europe

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dc.contributor.authorYegenoglu, Meyda
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-18T20:48:51Z
dc.date.available2024-07-18T20:48:51Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.departmentİstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractThis article suggests that the historical figuration of Islam as well as the discourse of secularization has played a fundamental role in the constitution of Islam's externality to Europe. The historical figuration of Islam as Europe's enemy is haunting Europe. The European secularist anxiety today, which insists on the separation between the domains of the private and the public needs to be understood against the backdrop of this history. If Islam's inability to separate the religious and the political was historically the dominant motif through which Islam was registered as the arch-enemy, the post-secular, post-Enlightenment period registers Islam as an enemy through a cultural gesture. Derrida's understanding of spectrality and the concept autoimmunity are deployed to suggest that Islam as a specter haunting Europe undermines the sovereign constitution of a self-identical Europe, but this haunting needs to be seen as Europe's chance for a self-destructive conservation of Europe. European identity has to be rethought and renewed differently and this rethinking requires that we attend to the present as well as the past and future of Europe, which requires the opening of Europe to otherness and responsibility to the other. Such a rethinking of Europe's history necessitates thinking about colonialism as well the living embodiments of this colonial legacy today, which are the immigrants.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0191453714522477
dc.identifier.endpage468en_US
dc.identifier.issn0191-4537
dc.identifier.issn1461-734X
dc.identifier.issue4.Mayen_US
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-84899744044en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1en_US
dc.identifier.startpage459en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/0191453714522477
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11411/7973
dc.identifier.volume40en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000335455700013en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/Aen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Incen_US
dc.relation.ispartofPhilosophy & Social Criticismen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectAutoimmunityen_US
dc.subjectColonialismen_US
dc.subjectEuropeen_US
dc.subjectHauntingen_US
dc.subjectIslamen_US
dc.subjectPost-Colonialityen_US
dc.titleSovereignty renounced: Autoimmunizing and democratizing Europeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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