s There are of course good historical reasons for the primacy of " one" discourse. While an adequate account of these reasons is beyond the scope of this essay, such an account would necessarily draw out the connections between scientific discourse, Enlightenment accounts of reason, and critiques of absolutism anchored in a reason with claims to universal validity because of their kinship with science. Thomas Hobbes, then, would figure in such an account.
9 Lacan, On Feminine Sexuality, 16-17; Zizek, Iraq, 131-57.
1 o Zizek, Iraq, 144.
1 1 Ibid.
12 See, for exampl�, "Remarks by the President at the 2oth Anniversary of the National Endowment for Democracy;' November 2003, available at http:// www.whitehouse.gov (accessed July 28, 2008) .
.t 3 Gutmann and Thompson, Why Deliberative Democracy?, 7 . (Subsequent page references are given parenthetically in the text.)
1 4 Post from February 28, 2005, http :/ /jdeanicite.typepad.com.
1 5 For the sake o f clarity, I've omitted the specific Lacanian formulae for each of these discourses. A thorough elaboration appears in my Zizek's Politics.
:ts Zizek, .Iraq, 133 -45.
1 7 Diane Rubenstein also reads Bush's relation to law as perverse. See This Is Not a President, 193- 96.
:1 8 Claude Lefort, Democracy and Political Theory.
.t9 Text of address available at http:/ /ww.whitehouse.gov.
20 "Bush: 'I'm the decider' on Rumsfeld;' April 18, 2006. Available at http:/ I w.cnn.com.
2 1 In Joan Copjec's words, "The pervert is a pure, pathos-less instrument o f the Other's wil;' Imagine There's No Woman, 229.
22 See Zizek, Tarrying with the Negative, 122-24.
23 Ibid., 122.
24 Ibid.
25 For a more thorough argument on this point, see Dean, "Enemies Imagined and Symbolic:'
26 Zizek, Iraq, 134.
27 Ibid., 139.
28 See Schmitt, The Concept of the Political, 35·
29 Gutmann and Thompson are thus incapable of responding to one of Schmitt's central claims: "The political entity is by its very nature the decisive entity, regardless of the source from which it: derives its last psychic motives. It exists or does not exist. If it exists, it is the supreme, that is, the decisive case, the authoritative entity;' The Concept of the Political, 43-44.
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