audioaspects; last updated: November 2, 2004
			Annotation From a political perspective spheres of detainment question the ruling concepts of sovereignty and citizenship for defining the legal status of a person. Jacques Derrida provokes in his book "Voyous" [Rogues] unimaginable extensions of democracy across the sovereignty of the nation state, via an international juridical-political space, paired with divisible and other concepts of sovereignty. Derrida demands a renewed declaration of human rights (but not the one of human and civil rights) which could serves a decisive democratic point of reference for the institutions of the international law. This point of reference is in virtual contradiction to the sovereignty of the national state which itself stays unquestioned from it. "As far as - most vainly - one tries to set borders to the sovereignty of the nation state, it happens through appealing the declaration of the human rights. The declaration of human rights acts towards the sovereignty of the nation state not as a limitation or a contradiction, not as a principle of a non-sovereignty towards a principle of sovereignty. Rather stands sovereignty against sovereignty. The declarations of human rights position the (equal, free, autonomous) person as the sovereign. The declarations of human rights declares another sovereignty, and provides the auto-immunisation of sovereignty." Translated from Jacques Derrida, in Voyous [Rogues]; Edition Galilee, Paris, 2003