Abstract: The political thought of Derrida is an extended confrontation with the problem of sovereignty. This text asks how and why Derridean deconstruction questions the Hobbesian theory of sovereignty and, in so doing, uncovers a tension between sovereignty and indivisibility that deconstruction seeks to dismantle in ways that will be present in my critical reading. The aim of Derridean political thought may thus be said to consist in dismantling this political tension.
