Reading Path
declarativeSuccession and Sovereignty
How power is transmitted, preserved, and singularized — the deepest question of political order.
Introduction
The mode of succession is the most important question for assessing a social order. This path develops that claim in full. It begins with the originary account of how practices are perpetuated, moves through the political theory of sovereignty, and arrives at the specific question of how the center passes in conditions of post-ritual modernity. The path assumes the foundation and political paths.
The Sequence — 3 texts
Singularized succession in perpetuity as the foundation of any practice — the concept that makes succession not merely a political question but a condition of every domain of human activity. Having established the concept in its most general form, we can now apply it to political sovereignty specifically.
The political application: mode of succession as the most important question for assessing a social order. The argument that succession is not incidental to political form but constitutive of it.
Where This Path Arrives
Succession connects every other domain. Every practice has a succession problem; every institution has a mode of transmitting its authority. The question this path leaves you with: what mode of succession is adequate to the practices you are responsible for?