In the wake of recent elections in Greece, Dr Thanos Zartaloudis, offers a philosophical reflection on the hope that ensues from the ‘thinking’ government of Syriza in a post written for the Critical Legal Thinking blog.
In his post, entitled ‘For fragments, and not debts, we are’, Dr Zartaloudis considers, amongst other things, Greece’s political economy and the appointment of the new Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis.
Dr Zartaloudis writes: ‘And since questions require some parrhesia it is also to be welcomed that one hears some, at least, of the new ministers make statements of ever-less political rhetoric; and even in some minor instances of, in fact, no kind of political-speak at all (the kind of generalities, vertigoes, banner-makings, vulgarities and career building manifestoes that we have been used to, and which one always fears shall return). It is to be hoped that more ministers will state that they are not afraid to fail and to hold their power as of their own genuine responsibility. That would be the euporia of, even, failure.’
To read Dr Zartaloudis’s post in full, visit the Critical Legal Thinking blog.
Dr Zartaloudis is Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School. He is also a Lecturer at the Architectural Association in London and serves on a number of research centers and associations, including as a founding member of the board of the Centre for Research in Politico-Legal Theology (at Birkbeck College in affiliation with an international network of European Universities in Italy, Switzerland and France).
His main research interests lie within: philosophy, social theory, legal history, ideas of property and the Commons, the history and theory of architecture, urban studies, immigration, asylum and refugee law, the history and philosophy of science and new technologies, and law and visual studies.
He is the head-editor (with Anton Schütz) of the book series titled Encounters in Law and Philosophy, published by Edinburgh University Press, and his most recently published book is entitled Giorgio Agamben: Power Law and the Uses of Criticism.
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