In his final publication Derrida argues for a rather wide notion of the concept of sovereignty. Sovereigns are not only public officers and dignitaries, or those who invest them with sovereign power – we all are sovereigns, without exception, insofar the sovereign function is nothing but the rationale of all metaphysics, anchored in a certain capability, in the ability to do something, in a power or potency that transfers and realizes itself, that shows itself in possession, property, the power or authority of the master, be it the master of the house or in the city or state, despot, be it the master over himself, and thus master over his passions which have to be mastered just like the many-headed mass in the political arena. Derrida thinks the sovereign with Aristotle: the prima causa, the unmoved mover. It has been often remarked that philosophy here openly reveals itself as political theology. Derrida thus refers to the famous lines of the Iliad, where Ulysses warns of the sovereignty of the many: \"it is not well that there should be many masters; one man must be supreme – one king to whom the son of scheming Saturn has given the scepter of sovereignty over you all.\"
This means that all metaphysics is grounded on a political imperative that prohibits the sovereignty of the many in favor of the one cause, the one being, the arche (both cause and sovereignty), the one principle and princeps, of the One in the first place. The cause and the principle are representations of the function of the King in the discourse of metaphysics. Derrida, however, does not only
Leia na íntegra: BALKE, Friedrich. "Derrida and Foucault On Sovereignty". German Law Journal, v. 6, 2005, p. 71-85
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