Constitutional Exposure: A Postulation for Democracy to Come

CONSTITUTIONAL EXPOSURE identifies and then builds on the principal postulation in Jacques Derridas discourse on democracy to come. First Pablo Ghetti argues that Derridas key postulation in democracy to come lies in what is termed constitutional exposure i.e. exposure of the constitutional experience of law (constitution-ruin visibility-invisibility friendship-enmity universality-singularity). Second he intensifies Derridas discourse by further addressing both law and the to come.There are two obstacles to Derridas constitutional exposure: his understanding of juridical law [droit] and the to come as opposed to justice and sovereignty respectively. As in democracy per se what is needed of law and to come is to insist upon their exposure. Democracy to come is a postulation that still has a to come ultimately towards an overexposure as a radical democratic postulation with and beyond Derrida. Such a beyond is thought from within Derridas work and his sources but also through critical legal thought radical democratic theory post-Marxism and the philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy. Working towards a more equal and fuller enjoyment of democracy and the exposed constitution of law this book crafts various strategies and develops a language through which constitutional settings can be further studied and critiqued and through which their democratic core can be defended and enhanced.