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What is the biggest threat we face today? Democracy, perhaps? According to Derrida, democracy “must thus come to resemble [its] enemies, to corrupt itself and threaten itself in order to protect itself against their threats” (Rogues 40).
For Derrida, “[w]herever freedom is no longer determined as power, mastery, or force, or even as a faculty, as a possibility of the ‘I can’ . . , the evocation and evaluation of democracy as the power of the demos begins to tremble” (40-41). He asks, “Is democracy that which assures the right to think and thus to act without it or against it? Yes or no?” (41).

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